LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

42.01 in. (106.70 cm.) (height) by 36.02 in. (91.50 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

London, Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition, May 1956, no. 186. Cookham, Church and Vicarage, Stanley Spencer Exhibition, May 1958, no. 42. London, Royal Academy, Stanley Spencer RA, May 1980, no. 269. New York, CDS Gallery, Stanley Spencer: Heaven on Earth, April 1983, no. 20. London, Barbican Art Gallery, Stanley Spencer: The Apotheosis of Love, January - April 1991, no. 68. Washington DC, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Stanley Spencer: An English Vision, October 1997 - January 1998: this exhibition travelled to Mexico City, Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporáneo, February - May 1998; and San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, June - September 1998.

Literature:

G. Spencer, Stanley Spencer, London, 1961, pp. 84-7. Exhibition catalogue, Stanley Spencer RA, London, Royal Academy, 1980, p. 220-1, no. 269, illustrated. D. Robinson, Stanley Spencer, Oxford, 1990, pp. 117, 120, pl. 96. J. Alison (ed.), exhibition catalogue, Stanley Spencer The Apotheosis of Love, London, Barbican Art Gallery, 1991, pp. 85, 102, no. 68, illustrated. K. Bell, Stanley Spencer: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, London, 1992, pp. 222, 224-5, 230, 232-3, 507, no. 413, illustrated. F. MacCarthy, exhibition catalogue, Stanley Spencer: An English Vision, Yale, 1997, pp. 52, 54, no. 60, illustrated. Letter from Stanley Spencer to Peter Ryder, 3 May 1995, quoted in A. Glew, Stanley Spencer Letters and Writings, London, 2001, p. 244.

Provenance:

with Arthur Tooth, London. Audrey Burton.