SIR STANLEY SPENCER, R.A. | COTTAGE GARDEN, LEONARD STANLEY
Auction Closed
July 28, 08:20 PM GMT
Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
SIR STANLEY SPENCER, R.A.
1891-1959
COTTAGE GARDEN, LEONARD STANLEY
oil on canvas
51 by 76 cm.; 20 by 30 in.
Executed in 1940.
We ar♛e grateful to Carolyn Leder for her kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.
Alex. Reid & Lefevre, London, where acquired by🍰 Arthur, 7th Earl Castle Stewar𝔍t in 1942, and thence by descent
Sale, Christie's London, ♔21 November 2003, lot 139
Private Collection
Acquired by t🧸he family of the present owner in March 2006
K. Bell, Stanley Spencer, A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, London, 1992, p. ♍465, no. 288, illustrated, with incorrect provenance
London, Alex. Reid & Lefevre, British and French Paintings, March - April 1942, no. 44, as 'Cottage Garden'
Warwickshire, Compton Verney, Stanley Spencer and the English Garden, June - October 2011, no. 38