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Camouflaged Grenadier Two Composition Burghclere Chapel
Purchased 1927
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19 June 2002 – 6 October 2002
2002-10-06
19 June 2002 – 6 October 2002
2002-10-06
2002-06-19
Abbot Hall Art Gallery (Kendal, UK)
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2002-06-19
Spencer
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Kunsthal Rotterdam (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
2011-09-01
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6 November 2013 – 30 June 2014
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King’s College London, Somerset House (London, UK)
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2014-06-30
2014-02-01
Pallant House Gallery (Chichester, UK)
2013-11-06
Heaven in the Hell of War: Stanley Spencer at Sandham
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Camouflaged Grenadier. Verso: Two Composition Studies for Burghclere Chapel
support: 505 × 371 mm
Purchased 1927
<p><b>N04245</b> <i>Recto:</i> CAMOUFLAGED GRENADIER 1922–3
<br/><i>Verso:</i> TWO COMPOSITION STUDIES FOR BURGHCLERE CHAPEL</p>
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<p>Inscr. on back ‘Camouflaged Grenadier. 9’ b.c.
<br/>Pencil and wash (squared for painting), 19 7/8×14 5/8 (50·5×36·5).
<br/>Purchased from the Goupil Gallery (Duveen Drawings Fund) 1927.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Goupil Gallery, February 1927 (5).</p>
<p>A study for the soldier seen in the foreground of the fourth arched-top <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> on the north wall of Burghclere Chapel, overlooking the altar. The artist knew this man; he was a particularly daring character and was killed during the fighting in Macedonia (information from Gilbert Spencer, 26 October 1961).</p>
<p>On the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/r/recto-verso" title="Glossary definition for 'Recto / Verso'"><span>verso</span></a> are two preliminary <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>watercolour</span></a> studies for the east wall <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a> of the Burghclere Chapel murals which appear to be superimposed over a third <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/g/graphite" title="Glossary definition for 'Graphite'"><span>pencil</span></a> sketch of a military camp, in which tents, etc., are indicated on the skyline. The two watercolour studies show one feature, that of the soldier seated between two mules (on the left), common to both and to the final painting in the chapel. Otherwise they bear little obvious relationship to the finished composition. The pure <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscape</span></a> background which appears in both is considerably reduced in the finished composition. The mules, which are in the foreground here, are afterwards relegated to the middle background, while the motif of intermingled crosses is only suggested in the left-hand study at the top right-hand corner.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, II
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