Important painting by Sir Stanley Spencer for Auction
Published June 30th, 2008
The painting “Crossing the Road” will go under the hammer at Bonhams’ 20th Century British Art Sale on the 2 July. The piece is estimated to sell for £100,000 - 150,000. Spencer’s love of his home village, Cookham, was immortalised in his series of paintings for the “Church-House” scheme that he began in 1932.
“Crossing the Road” belongs to this extremely ambitious and important project. The 1930’s are considered by many to be Spencer’s master years, during which his imaginative and painterly images earned him a place in history as one Britain’s most talented and inventive artist of the 20th century.
Sir Stanley Spencer was one of the great British artists of the 20th century. He was born in the Thames-side village of Cookham in Berkshire and became closely identified with it through his lifelong sequences of visionary paintings transforming the local into the epic with an oddness and intensity unparalleled in 20th century British art.
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