Windmill and Haystack, Poland

Details

Robert Bevan (1865-1925)
Windmill and Haystack, Poland
oil on canvas-board
8 3/8 x 10 3/8in. (21.2 x 26.3cm.)
Painted circa 1901

Provenance

The artist's son.
Purchased by the present owner at the 1969 exhibition.

Exhibited

London, d'Offay Couper Gallery, Robert Bevan Early Paintings 1895-1908, April-May 1969, no.6.

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Lot Essay

Bevan worked at Szeliwy in Poland in 1899, 1901, 1903 and 1904, while staying with his wife's family. His son, Robert, remarked that 'Poland wakened in my father a very intense affection, a romantic sympathy that is reflected in much of the work of these early years. He was never happier than when he was working in Poland and living among Poles'. (see Robert Bevan (1865-1925) A memoir by his son, London, 1965, p.13).

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