Two Breton girls

细节

Robert Polhill Bevan (1865-1925)
Two Breton girls
with studio stamp (beneath the mount)
pencil and crayon
10½ x 9 in. (26.7 x 22.9 cm.)
Executed circa 1892.

来源

R.A. Bevan, until circa 1959.

注意事项

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拍品专文

'Bevan needed a primitive environment and unspoiled countryside to be at his best. He found this initially in Brittany where he worked with Gauguin. He went to Brittany for the first time in 1891 and, judging by the evidence of his drawings, he was captivated by the country and its people. Perhaps his most eloquent drawings are of women in their distinctive Breton costume. The young girls are drawn with an exquisite tenderness, the old women with compassion and respect. Technically, these drawings are superb, but it is the artist's personal response which makes them works of art' (see M. Connett, Walter Sickert and the Camden Town Group, London, 1992, p. 60).

We are grateful to Patrick Baty for his assistance cataloguing lots 89 and 90.