A boy's head

Spencer exhibited several pencil portraits of boy's heads during the 1920s and 1930s. Michael Sadler was a significant patron of twentieth-century British artists, acquiring several works by Gilbert and his brother Stanley.

Date: c.1920-30
Inscriptions: lr: Gilbert Spencer
Tags: Portrait, Pencil, Works on paper
Medium: Pencil on paper
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Location: Cooper Gallery, Barnsley Museums                                       Exhibition history: 'Barnsley's Radical Collector: The Sadler Gift from Turner to Bloomsbury', Cooper Gallery, Barnsley Museums, 19 July 2025-3 January 2026                                                    

Provenance: Gift of Michael Sadler, 1933