Garsington

Spencer executed many paintings while staying in Garsington from c. 1923-6, and their titles have often become confused. However, this painting can be securely identified as Garsington by the related oil study (c. 1924, private collection) which is inscribed ‘G. SPENCER/ STUDY FOR/ GARSINGTON’. It is almost certainly therefore the painting of that name exhibited at the Goupil Gallery Summer Exhibition 1924 (163). It was priced at £36.15, at the upper end of his price range for landscape paintings in the 1920s.

Date: 1924
Inscriptions: lr: G SPENCER 1924
Tags: Landscape, Agricultural, Oil Paintings
Medium: Oil on canvas, laid down on board
Height (mm): 510
Width (mm): 940
Location: Private collection
Exhibition History: Goupil Gallery Summer Exhibition 1924 (163); possibly Leicester Galleries 1934 (21)
Provenance: Dr John Birch; J.L. Behrend; Sotheby's 25 May 1983 lot 124; Woolley and Wallis, 19 September 2012 lot 214; Philip Mould