Robert Polhill Bevan (British 1865-1925)
Crocks, 1925
£3,024
Auction: 28 October 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
inscribed in pencil 'Proof / 1925' (lower left), stamped with the artist's monogram, lithograph on paper
Dimensions
plate: 29.5cm x 35.3cm (11 1/2in x 14in; sheet: 43.4cm x 56cm (17 1/4in x 22in)
Provenance
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist and thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature:
Dry, Graham, Robert Bevan 1865-1925: Catalogue Raisonné of the Lithographs and other Prints, The Curwen Press, London 1965, another example from the edition repr. b/w no.39 (dated 1924-25).
Footnote
From a numbered edition of forty plus four proofs. Graham Dry has explained 'Bevan saw the proofs of this lithograph before he died and the printing was supervised by the artist's son.' (op.cit.) This work is based on an oil painting of the same title of 1922, whose location is unknown.