The Cottage Garden

This is a characteristic Gilbert Spencer landscape composition, with the barbed wire fence cutting across the foreground, and its focus on the rough vegetation at the rear at the property, rather than the more manicured front. It was priced at £52.10 in 1929, at the upper end of the price range for Spencer's landscapes at the time.

Date: c. 1926-9
Inscriptions: lr: Gilbert Spencer
Tags: Landscape, Oil Paintings
Medium: Oil on canvas
Height (mm): 610
Width (mm): 711
Location: Private collection
Exhibition History: Goupil Gallery Salon 1929 (57)
Provenance: Christie's, London 13 December 2016 lot 73