TONY BEVAN, R.A. (B. 1951)
TONY BEVAN, R.A. (B. 1951)
TONY BEVAN, R.A. (B. 1951)
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TONY BEVAN, R.A. (B. 1951)

Tree (no. 1) (PP1219)

Details
TONY BEVAN, R.A. (B. 1951)
Tree (no. 1) (PP1219)
signed and dated 'BEVAN 12' (lower right)
acrylic and charcoal on paper
33 1/2 x 47 3/4 in. (85.1 x 121.3 cm.)
Executed in 2012.
Provenance
with Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong; purchased from the 2013 exhibition by Robin and Rupert Hambro.
Exhibited
Hong Kong, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Tony Bevan: Chinese Trees, September - November 2013, exhibition not numbered.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay


The stimulus for Bevan’s series of Chinese trees is rooted in his discovery of an ancient tree in the courtyard of a temple in the district of Dujiangyan, Sichuan Province, while travelling in China. ‘What attracted me was the tree’s contradictions and the endless forms that came from this, a bit like looking at clouds changing, I set out to explore its full nature, and the forms it held within’ (T. Bevan quoted in Tony Bevan: Chinese Trees, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong, 2013). Bevan’s first step into the Asian art scene was in 2007 and 2008, when he travelled extensively throughout China, visiting the cave paintings of Dunhuang, Gansu Province, and the great Buddha at Leshan.

In the present work, Bevan renders the powerful vitality of the tree’s twisting form through thick lines and daubs of pure pigmented colour scattered across the surface. His use of charcoal and his own acrylic pigments gives the work an opulent appearance and rhythmic tactility.

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