Gilbert Spencer British, 1892-1979
Aberdovey (Aberdyfi), 1953
oil on canvas
90 x 186 cm
35 3/8 x 73 1/4 in
35 3/8 x 73 1/4 in
This large, imaginative figure composition draws on the artist's memories of an idyllic holiday in Wales the previous summer. The distant hills are recognisable from his landscape Bryn-Og, painted during...
This large, imaginative figure composition draws on the artist's memories of an idyllic holiday in Wales the previous summer. The distant hills are recognisable from his landscape Bryn-Og, painted during the trip (1952, Reading Museum). In concept and mood, it shares many similarities with Spencer's large painting A Hebridean Memory (1949-51), completed two years earlier, which also recalled an idyllic seaside holiday.
Provenance
Estate of the ArtistSotheby's London 3 November 1982 lot 137
Liss Llewellyn
Private Collection, UK
Exhibitions
London, Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition, 1953Bradford, Cartwright Memorial Hall, 'Fifty Years of British Art, Golden Jubilee Exhibition', March - June 1954
Literature
RA Illustrated 1953, p.32Paul Gough, 'Gilbert Spencer', New Haven and London: Yale, 2024, p.264, illus. pp.290-1
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