HUMPHREY SPENDER (BRITISH 1910-2005) §
INDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPE WITH PYLONS, 1938
£2,520
Auction: Day Sale (Lots 52 to 481) - 26 April at 10am
Description
oil on canvas
Dimensions
60cm x 39cm (23 5/8in x 15 3/8in)
Provenance
Peter Nahum at the Leicester Galleries, London;
His sale, Christie’s South Kensington, The Poetry of Crisis: The Peter Nahum Collection of British Surrealist and Avant-Garde Art, 15 November 2006, lot 26, where acquired by the present owner.
Footnote
Exhibited:
Chichester Art Festival, The Bishop's Palace, Chichester, Urban Images, 1995;
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Humanist Landscapes: Humphrey Spender's Photo Documents, 1932-1942, 10 September - 9 November 1997, no.48;
Aldeburgh Festival Exhibition, Peter Pears Gallery, Aldeburgh, 2006, no.15.
Literature:
Frizzell, Deborah, Humphrey Spender's Humanist Landscapes: Photo-documents, 1932-1942, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1997, p.74, fig. 27.