Study for Flower Show Day, Witchampton (alt. titles: The Flower Show, Harvest Festival)
This is a preparatory drawing for the monumental oil painting of the same title (1932, private collection). When painting imaginative figure compositions, Spencer customarily worked out the composition through a series of drawings and cut-out figures, then squared the finished composition for transfer to canvas, as is the case with this drawing.
Date: c. 1932
Tags: Figures, Pencil, Watercolour, Works on paper
Medium: Pencil and watercolour on paper, squared for transfer
Height (mm): 735
Width (mm): 545
Location: Private collection
Exhibition History: Goupil 1932 (1)
Provenance: Christie's London 4 March 1988 lot 217; John Davies Gallery, Stow-on-the-Wold, where acquired by the present owner, 1 June 1988 (as Harvest Festival Scene); private collection, UK; Bonhams, London 12 July 2023 lot 15
Date: c. 1932
Tags: Figures, Pencil, Watercolour, Works on paper
Medium: Pencil and watercolour on paper, squared for transfer
Height (mm): 735
Width (mm): 545
Location: Private collection
Exhibition History: Goupil 1932 (1)
Provenance: Christie's London 4 March 1988 lot 217; John Davies Gallery, Stow-on-the-Wold, where acquired by the present owner, 1 June 1988 (as Harvest Festival Scene); private collection, UK; Bonhams, London 12 July 2023 lot 15