Study for A Sale at Tattersall's

Details

Robert Polhill Bevan (1865-1925)
Study for A Sale at Tattersall's
pencil, coloured crayon and watercolour, squared for transfer
5½ x 6¾ in. (14 x 17.1 cm.)
Executed circa 1911

Provenance

R.A. Bevan, the artist's son.
Lt. Col. J.K. McConnell, D.S.O., by whom purchased at the 1967 exhibition.

Exhibited

London, Anthony d'Offay, Robert Bevan Drawings and Watercolours, 1967, no. 17.

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Sale room notice

The catalogue note for this work should read:

Provenance:
R.A. Bevan, the artist's son.
Purchased by Lt Col J.K. McConnell, D.S.O. at the 1967 exhibition.

Exhibited:
London, Anthony d'Offay, Robert Bevan Drawings and Watercolours, 1967, no. 17.

The present work is a study for an oil painting entitled, A Sale at Tattersall's (1911; Southampton Art Gallery; see R.A. Bevan, Robert Bevan 1865-1925 A Memoir by his Son, London, 1965, p. 17, pl. 29). The oil was purchased by Mrs MacConnell, the mother of Lt Col J.K. MacConnell, at Bevan's one-man show at the Carfax Gallery in 1913; it was purchased by Southampton Art Gallery in 1974.

Lot Essay

The present work is a study for an oil painting entitled, A Sale at Tattersall's (1911; Southampton Art Gallery; see R.A. Bevan, Robert Bevan 1865-1925 A Memoir by his Son, London, 1965, p. 17, pl. 29). The oil was purchased by Mrs McConnell, mother of Lt Col J.K. McConnell, at Bevan's one-man show at the Carfax Gallery in 1913.

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