Leslie Cubitt Bevis

Details

David Jones, C.H. (Brockley 1895-1974 Harrow)
Leslie Cubitt Bevis
signed with monogram and dated '1921 AD.' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour
11½ x 9 in. (29.2 x 22.8 cm.)

Provenance

F.E. Smith, 1st Viscount Birkenhead.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Billingshurst, 23 September 1986, lot 3159.

Exhibited

London, Goupil Gallery Salon, 1921, no. 297.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Leslie Cubitt Bevis was a sculptor, primarily of portraits, who taught modelling at the Camberwell School of Art. David Jones had studied at the School from 1909-14, under A.S. Hartrick, who had worked with Van Gogh and Gauguin, and who influenced his style of pencil, watercolour and bodycolour; and Reginald Savage, who introduced him to the work of the Pre-Raphaelites and the English illustrators.

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