SPENCER, Stanley

Stanley Spencer print titled ‘Self Portrait’

Description

Stanley Spencer print titled ‘Self Portrait’, published by Henry Trivik, 1975. A photo-lithograph, printed on light coloured paper with dark brown coloured ink. A trial printers proof therefore not numbered. There are two light brown spots , one being in the image, the other just outside in the margin on the centre right side; a dark mark on the left margin edge; sheet edges are creased with diagonal crease marks in top left corner. Most of which can be mounted out.

Sheet size 50.5 x 35 cm (17.75 x 13.75 inches)

Item details

This photo-lithograph made by Spencer s friend, the artist Henry Trivick, and is taken from a set of drawings made by Spencer in the 1930s. Copies are held at the Stanley Spencer Museum in Cookham and are extremely scarce. Being a trail proof, it does not bear a Friary Studio stamp. I purchased these some years ago at Bonham’s s, Chelsea as part of a large lot, all of which were trial proofs with printer s directions.

The lithographs were produced after Stanley Spencer’s death – Trivick produced a number of lithographs from drawings in the collection to be sold to raise funds for the Gallery. The more sought after lithographs are those that Spencer produced under Trivick’s guidance at the Regent St Poly: The Marriage at Cana, Retrieving a Ball and Caroline Pullen. 

Ann Danks: Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham.