Lot 12: John Byam Liston Shaw (1872-1919)

John Byam Liston Shaw (1872-1919)
The Arrested Spear
signed 'BYAM SHAW' (lower right, in a cartouche) and further numbered, signed and inscribed 'No 1/Byam Shaw/62 Addison Road Kensington W/The Arrested Spear' (on the artist's label, attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas
60 x 72 in. (152.5 x 183 cm.)

London, Royal Academy, 1916, no. 973.

Times, 29 April 1916, p.6.
Athenaeum, no. 4605, May 1916, p.254.
R. V. Cole, The Art and Life of Byam Shaw, London, 1932, pp. 194, 196, 212, 221.

Presented by the 1st Viscount Leverhume to the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1925.
The Museum of Vancouver, by which de-accessioned in 2011.