Squared for transfer

Pencil, 10.5 by 13.5 cm

Provenance: the estate of Daphne Charlton

This is one of the numerous sketches Spencer made focusing on life with his first wife, the painter Hilda Carline, who died in 1950. His life with Hilda was the subject for an unrealised chapel project that would celebrate their life together through domestic and everyday scenes of their time together. He was still working on themes involving Hilda at the time of his death in 1959.