signed and dated ’26’ (lower right); inscribed and dated again on the reverse
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Brockley in April, 1926
Provenance:
with Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London
Exhibition History:
London, Geffrye Museum, Home and Garden, February – June 2007 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, no. 29);
Rotterdam, Kunsthal, Stanley Spencer Between Heaven and Earth, September 2011 – January 2012;
Chichester, Otter Gallery, Ingram Loan Exhibition, May – July 2012;
Woking, The Lightbox, The Ingram Collection: The Impact of War, 15 October 2014 – 4 January 2015;
Bristol, Royal West of England Academy, Drawing On, 21 March – 7 June 2015;
Woking, The Lightbox, John Minton and the Romantic Tradition, 28 January – 9 March 2017;
Kendal, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Land | Sea | Life: A British Art Collection, 20 October 2017 – 17 February 2018;
London, The Sammy Ofer Centre, London Business School, Metropolis, 23 July 2018 – 11 February 2019;
Cookham, The Stanley Spencer Gallery, Counterpoint: Stanley Spencer and his contemporaries, 28 March – 3 November 2019
David Jones’ creative output revolved around his experiences during the First World War and his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1921. Brockley in April is one of a number of paintings which he produced whilst at his parents’ house, at Howson Road in London. The fantastical quality in this landscape reflects Jones’ interest in religion as well as in tales of classical mythology.
