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Engaging NEW exhibition
Stanley Spencer In Focus
Paintings and Works on Paper from the
Cookham Collection
From Wednesday 4th October 2017 to 25th March 2018
A dazzling collection of paintings and drawings
by Stanley Spencer are on show this autumn in
a new exhibition at the Stanley Spencer Gallery,
High Street, Cookham.
They include the Portrait of Lathonia Mercer, Oct
1959, described by Lord Mark Poltimore, Deputy
Chairman of Sotheby’s Europe as:
“a stunning portrait of a beautiful lady by the great,
great painter Stanley Spencer … he is an absolute
genius … you can see by the portrait … how
wonderful it is, the attention to detail is phenomenal,
he has an almost Pre-Raphaelite exactness … he is
majestic … people just love Stanley Spencer and they
will love this work.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00cfn48
Open: November to March
11am to 4.30pm Thursday to Sunday.
Adult £6. Seniors £4. Children free
Lathonia Miller (née Mercer) has recently gifted the highly
acclaimed work to the Stanley Spencer Gallery Collection.
Her father was the artist’s GP and treated Stanley
towards the end of his life. Concerned that Stanley was
not eating properly he asked him to the family home
where Lathonia’s mother made meals for him. It was
during these visits that the portrait was drawn.
Visitors to the Gallery will have a unique opportunity
to get up close and personal with Spencer’s work
and focus on perennial favourites such as The Last
Supper, 1920 and Christ Preaching at Cookham
Regatta, 1952-9; easy-on-the-eye garden greats
such as Greenhouse Interior, c1935; sensational
new additions to the Gallery collection that also
include Portrait of Albert Henry Seager, April 1916,
a rare drawing of Spencer’s from the early years of
World War 1 and kindly gifted by the sitter’s family
earlier this year.
www.stanleyspencer.org.uk
#spencercookham
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