Live Auction 799820th Century British & Irish Art
Sir Stanley Spencer, R.A. (1891-1959)
Lot 176

Sir Stanley Spencer, R.A. (1891-1959)

The Marrow Bed

Closed17 November 2011

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GBP 87,650

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Sir Stanley Spencer, R.A. (1891-1959)
The Marrow Bed
oil on canvas
20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm.)
Painted in 1926.

Purchased by J.L. Behrend at the 1927 exhibition.
with Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, where purchased by G.G. Shiel in October 1967, and by descent.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 11 June 1982, lot 53.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 8 May 1988, lot 121.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 12 December 2008, lot 50, where purchased by the present owner.

Specialist note

'The more real and natural I made a drawing or composition the more intense and beautiful it was ... in destroying the physical realness you destroy the spiritual ... its essential beauty is its realness' (Stanley Spencer quoted in K. Bell Stanley Spencer London, 1992, no. 18)