The Farm Gate, Evening

Details

Robert Polhill Bevan (1865-1925)
The Farm Gate, Evening
stamped twice with the studio stamp 'Bevan' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas laid on panel
18 x 15 in. (45.7 x 38 cm.)
Painted in 1907-08.

Provenance

Judge Stephen Tumin, by whom purchased at the 1969 exhibition.

Exhibited

London, d'Offay Couper Gallery, Robert Bevan Early Paintings 1895-1908, May 1969, no. 35.

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Lot Essay

After 1907, Bevan, besides staying with his in-laws, visited his brother-in-law, Stanislawa Rytel at Mydlow near Opatow Kielecki in southern Poland, the subject of the present composition. A larger work with two figures and two cattle, The Farm Gate, Mydlow, was sold at Christie's, London, 19 November 2004, lot 80. Another picture, The Yard Gate, Mydlow, Poland is in the collection of Ulster Museum, Belfast and shows Bevan's divisionist technique.

We are very grateful to Patrick Baty for his assistance in preparing the catalogue entry for this and the following lot.

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