Stanley Spencer 1891-1959
Goats, Switzerland, 1936
oil on canvas
24 x 20 in
61 x 50.8 cm
61 x 50.8 cm
signed and dated
This painting is based on recollections of two trips to Switzerland in 1933 and 1935. The setting is Sass Grund with the Stations of the Cross situated on the old...
This painting is based on recollections of two trips to Switzerland in 1933 and 1935. The setting is Sass Grund with the Stations of the Cross situated on the old footpath to Saas Fe. During his 1935 stay in Zermatt, Spencer saw goats being herded past his hotel. (Tate 1955 exh cat).
Provenance
Arthur Tooth & SonsG.H.S. Behrend, purchased from the 1936 Arthur Tooth exhibition
John Louis Behrend, by 1962
Christies, London, 14 December 1973, titled Goats at Saas Grund,
Marlborough Galleries, London
Private Collection, UK
Exhibitions
London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Stanley Spencer, 25 June - 18 July 1936, cat no.23Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, Some Twentieth Century English Paintings and Drawings: W.R. Sickert, P.W. Steer, Duncan Grant, Mark Gertler, Stanley Spencer, Arts Council, 1950, cat no.74
London, Tate Gallery, Stanley Spencer: A Retrospective Exhibition, 3 November - 18 December 1955, cat no.42
London, Leicester Galleries, The J.L. Behrend Collection, May 1962, cat no.34, titled Goats at Saas Fe
Literature
Keith Bell, Stanley Spencer: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, Phaidon, London, 1992, cat no.186, illus b/w p440Join our mailing list
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