Modern & Post-War British Art
Modern & Post-War British Art
ROBERT POLHILL BEVAN
HOUSES IN SUNLIGHT
Lot Closed
November 17, 02:13 PM GMT
Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
ROBERT POLHILL BEVAN
1865 - 1925
HOUSES IN SUNLIGHT
signed Bevan (lower right)
oil on canvas
unframed: 50.5 by 61.5cm.; 19¾ by 24¼in.
framed: 69.5 by 79.5cm.; 27¼ by 31¼in.
Executed in 1915.
We are grateful to Patrick Baty for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work. Patrick is currently compiling the catalogue raisonné of the Artist’s work, and would like to hear from owners of any works by Robert Bevan, so that these can be included in this comprehensive catalogue. Please write to Patrick Baty c/o Modern & Post-War British Art, Sotheby’s, 34-35 New Bond Street, London, W1A 2AA, or email modbrit@sothebys.com.
The Artist's Wife, 1925
R.A. Bevan, 1951
Mrs Natalie Bevan, 1975
Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London
Acquired by the Mellon Bank, Pittsburgh, by 1986
Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, London, where acquired by the previous owner
Their sale, Sotheby's, London, 12 June 2017, lot 7, where acquired by the present owner
Charles Ginner, 'The Camden Town Group', The Studio, Vol. 130, no. 632, November 1945, illustrated p. 129
R.A. Bevan, Robert Bevan 1865-1925: A Memoir by His Son, Studio Vista Limited, London, 1965, illustrated pl. 51
Apollo, April 1975, no. 101, p. 326
Architectural Review, July 1975, no. 158, p. 57
Frances Stenlake, Robert Bevan: from Gauguin to Camden Town, Unicorn Press, London, 2008, pp. 91, 142, 148
London, Goupil Gallery, Fourth Exhibition of Works by Members of the London Group, June 1916, no. 69
Paris, Galerie Druet, Exposition d'un Groupe de Peintres Modernes, 27 June - 8 July 1921
London, Royal Watercolour Society Galleries, New English Art Club, 69th Exhibition, 27 December 1923 - 25 January 1924, no. 61
London, Goupil Gallery, Robert Bevan Memorial Exhibition, February 1926, no. 155 (as Houses in Sunlight, Hampstead)
Brighton, Brighton Public Art Galleries, Robert Bevan Memorial Exhibition, August 1926, no. 40 (as Houses in Sunlight, Hampstead)
Southampton, City Art Gallery, The Camden Town Group, 1951, no. 11 (as Houses in Sunlight, Hampstead, dated circa 1914-5)
London, Colnaghi & Co, Robert Bevan, 1961, no. 17 (dated 1914)
Colchester, The Minories, Robert Bevan Centenary Exhibition, 1965, no. 27, illustrated in the catalogue pl. VII
London, Colnaghi & Co, Robert Bevan 1865-1925, Centenary Exhibition, 23 March – 13 April 1965, no. 37, illustrated in the catalogue pl. VII
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, Robert Bevan Centenary Exhibition, April - May 1965, no. 37, illustrated in the catalogue pl. VII
London, Hampstead Town Hall, Camden Town Group: Hampstead Festival 1965, 21 May - 4 June 1965, no. 6
Colchester, The Minories, The R.A. Bevan Collection from Boxted House, 1975, no. 25
London, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, English Paintings from the Bevan Collection, 16 April – 9 May 1975, no. 6, illustrated in the catalogue
New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, The Camden Town Group, 1980, no. 11, illustrated in the catalogue