Bevan (Robert Polhill)

, , 1925.
This was to be Robert Bevan’s last lithograph. He saw the proofs just before he died, after which the printing was overseen by his son. It was based an oil painting he’d completed in 1922.

Robert Bevan (1865-1925) was born in Hove and raised in rural Sussex. After training at the Westminster School of Art and then the Académie Julien in Paris, Bevan spent time at Pont Aven in Brittany, where he met Paul Gauguin. He went on to be a member of several London groups of artists, including the Camden Town group. He was a keen horseman, often featuring horses in his work.

Provenance: ex-collection of Mattei Radev (1927-2009), inherited from Eardley Knollys (1902-1991), artist, critic, and art dealer, member of the Bloomsbury Group, who purchased it from the Maltzahn Gallery, Cork Street, London, November 1968..
290 by 350mm (11½ by 13¾ inches).