Lot 50
50
Robert Polhill Bevan (1865-1925)
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Robert Polhill Bevan (1865-1925)

Sabot Makers

Details
Robert Polhill Bevan (1865-1925)
Sabot Makers
with studio stamp (lower right)
charcoal with coloured chalks
11½ x 14½ in. (29.2 x 36.8 cm.)
Provenance
R.A. Bevan, 1956.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 14 November 1979, lot 30.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Arts Council, 1956, no. 43, pl. VI, illustrated. Country Life, 20 December 1956, D. Sutton, Painter of a Vanished Age, pp. 1452-53.
F. Gordon Roe, The Adventurous Robert Bevan, The British Racehorse, 1958, pp. 114-120.
F. Stenlake, From Cuckfield to Camden Town, Cuckfield, 1999, p. 29, illustrated.
Exhibited
Arts Council, 1956, no. 43.
London, Royal Academy, Gauguin and the School of Pont-Aven, 1989. Montréal, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Gauguin et L'école de Pont-Aven, February - April 1995.
San Diego, San Diego Museum of Art, Gauguin and the School of Pont-Aven, September 1994 - September 1996.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

'That Bevan also became acquainted with the work of Vincent Van Gogh ... is implied by such drawings of Bevan's as The Muck Cart and Sabot Makers, Brittany, both dating from circa 1894' (see F. Gordon Roe, The Adventurous Robert Bevan, The British Racehorse, 1958, p. 118).

We are very grateful to Patrick Baty for his assistance cataloguing lots 50-51.

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