SPENCER, Stanley

Stanley Spencer print titled ‘Spencer Family with Dog’

Description

Stanley Spencer print titled ‘Spencer Family with Dog’, published by Henry Trivik, 1975.A photo-lithograph, printed on light buff coloured paper with umber coloured ink. A trial printers proof with ‘Correct Colour but darker’ written in pencil in lower right corner. The sheet is in very good condition with the same image having been printed on the verso of the sheet.

Sheet size 53 x 39 cm (20.75 x 15.25 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 ‘Stan and Mary drawing each other’ 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.