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The Last Supper (1920)
Painting, oil on canvas, 1126 x 1452mm

The best known of the splendid series of religious pictures Spencer painted during his year’s stay with the Slessers, it was bought by them for £150 and installed in their private chapel in the boat-house. Christ sits before the wall of the grain bin in a Cookham malt-house, while John rests against him at the moment of the breaking of the bread. The other disciples are ranged along the sides of a plain table, their limbs forming a strongly marked pattern. Spencer was pleased with the feeling of seclusion surrounding the sacred event.