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Stanley SpencerStudy for Going to Bed Drawing, Pencil on Paper by Stanley Spencer, 19351935
1935
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Study for Going to Bed Drawing, Pencil on Paper by Stanley Spencer, 1935
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Medium: Drawing, Pencil on Paper
54.6 x 63.5 cm
21 1/2 x 25 in
This is a study for a painting featured in Spencer’s nine picture series, ‘Domestic Scenes’ (1935), throughout which the artist nostalgically reflected on and reimagined the marriage to his then-wife, Hilda Carline, following their separation after ten years together. Indeed, letters show that Hilda began divorce proceedings while the series was being produced, in part owing to Spencer’s infatuation with young artist Patricia Preece, who lived in Cookham alongside her partner Dorothy Hepworth. Spencer married Preece a week after the divorce was finalized, but the marriage was disastrous and his subsequent endeavors to reconcile with Hilda were also unsuccessful, although he did continue to visit her regularly until her death in 1950. Spencer saw the Domestic Scenes series as preparation for his 1953 painting ‘The Marriage of Cana’, a depiction of Christ’s first miracle, the turning of water into wine as described in St John’s Gospel, with the bride and groom reimagined as Stanley and Hilda.
This study has been exhibited widely, including at the opening exhibition of the Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham in 1962 and in the Royal Academy’s 1980 retrospective ‘Stanley Spencer: RA’. The completed painting, ‘Domestic Scenes: Going to Bed’ (1936) was included in the Barbican Art Gallery’s 1991 exhibition ‘Stanley Spencer: The Apotheosis of Love’, curated by John Toole and the series is much-admired as Spencer’s return to the subject of the everyday.
Painter of imaginative and religious subjects, of landscapes and occasional portraits. Born 30 June 1891 at Cookham, Berkshire, brother of Gilbert Spencer. Studied at the Maidenhead Technical Institute 1907 and at the Slade School 1908-12; awarded a scholarship 1910 and the Summer Composition Prize 1912. Exhibited at the Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition 1912. Served with the R.A.M.C. and the Royal Berkshire Regiment, mainly in Macedonia, 1915-18, and was commissioned to paint a war picture for the Imperial War Museum. Member of the N.E.A.C. 1919-27. Visited Yugoslavia 1922 with the Carline family. Married Hilda Carline 1925. Decorated the Oratory of All Souls, Burghclere, 1926-32, with scenes drawn from his reminiscences of the Macedonian war, and lived at Burghclere 1927-32. First one-man exhibition at the Goupil Gallery 1927. Lived at Cookham 1932-8. Visited Switzerland 1933 and 1936. Awarded an Honourable Mention at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1933. A.R.A. 1932; resigned 1935 after the rejection of two of his pictures; again A.R.A. and R.A. 1950. Official War Artist 1940-4, painting scenes of shipyards at Port Glasgow. Returned finally to Cookham 1945. Created C.B.E. 1950. Visited China as member of a cultural delegation 1954. Retrospective exhibitions of paintings at Temple Newsam, Leeds, 1947, and at the Tate Gallery 1955; and of drawings arranged and toured by the Arts Council 1954-5. Knighted 1959. Died at Taplow, 14 December 1959. A Stanley Spencer Gallery was opened at Cookham in 1962, and a memorial exhibition was held at Plymouth 1963. David Bowie owned one of the Artist's pallettes.
Provenance
Zwemmer Gallery, London
Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, by 1950
Private Collection, UK
Exhibitions
Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, Some 20th Century English Paintings and Drawings: W.R. Sickert, P.W. Steer, Duncan Grant, Mark Gertler, Stanley Spencer, Arts Council Wales, 1950, cat. no.79, where lent by Sir Michael Culme-Seymour;
Cookham, Stanley Spencer Gallery, Opening Exhibition, 1962, cat. no.30;
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Stanley Spencer RA, 20th September - 14th December 1980, cat. no.161, illustrated p.143, where lent by Sir Michael Culme-Seymour.
- Creator:Stanley Spencer (1891 - 1959, British)
- Creation Year:1935
- Dimensions:Height: 21.5 in (54.61 cm)Width: 25 in (63.5 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Kingsclere, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2718214576422
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