Watercolour Ink wash on yellowish paper. Provenance Malmö private collection. His personal war experience influenced such subjects as he served in Macedonia. Spencer expresses a painstaking care in an figurative vision of his emotional experience, confirmed on page 82 of the 1980 exhibition catalogue « Stanley Spencer RA » of the Royal Academy of Arts of London. « During their stay in Yugoslavia Spencer painted a total of nine landscapes and made a number of drawings and watercolour studies, often painting alongside his companions. While most of the paintings take minarets as their subjects, at least two, Ragusa & River Nareta, Mostar are composed of more general views of the Yugoslav landscape. As well as the 4 paintings in the exhibition, Spencer also painted five other landscapes in Yugoslavia... All are in Private Collections ». Study of 10 pages available through email.
Watercolour Ink wash on yellowish paper. Provenance Malmö private collection. His personal war experience influenced such subjects as he served in Macedonia. Spencer expresses a painstaking care in an figurative vision of his emotional experience, confirmed on page 82 of the 1980 exhibition catalogue « Stanley Spencer RA » of the Royal Academy of Arts of London. « During their stay in Yugoslavia Spencer painted a total of nine landscapes and made a number of drawings and watercolour studies, often painting alongside his companions. While most of the paintings take minarets as their subjects, at least two, Ragusa & River Nareta, Mostar are composed of more general views of the Yugoslav landscape. As well as the 4 paintings in the exhibition, Spencer also painted five other landscapes in Yugoslavia... All are in Private Collections ». Study of 10 pages available through email.