Lot 7: ROBERT POLHILL BEVAN | Houses in Sunlight

oil on canvas

51 by 61cm.; 20 by 24in.

oil on canvas

The following condition report has been prepared by Hamish Dewar Ltd: Structural Condition The canvas is unlined with the artist's stamps on the reverse. The turnover and tacking edges have been strengthened with what appears to be a partial strip-lining and are attached to the stretcher-bars with staples. Paint surface The heavily textured and impastoed paint surface appears structurally sound and secure. Inspection under ultraviolet light shows just the most minimal retouchings around the outer turnover edges. There are three very small retouchings in the pale pigments of the sky in the upper left of the composition, three small retouchings on the left of the lower horizontal turnover edge and a line, approximately 2 cm in length, just below the signature. There is also a very small retouching in the lower right corner. It should be stressed that these retouchings are all limited to the turnover edges and would be at least partially covered by the framing sight edge. Summary The painting would therefore appear to be in very good and stable condition and no further work is required. Please telephone the department on +44 207 293 6454 if you have any questions.
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London, Goupil Gallery,  Fourth Exhibition of Works by Members of the  London Group, June 1916, cat. no.69;
Paris, Galerie Druet,  Exposition d'un Groupe de Peintres Modernes, 27th June - 8th July 1921;
London, Royal Watercolour Society Galleries, New English Art Club, 69th Exhibition, 27th December 1923 - 25th January 1924, cat. no.61; 
London, Goupil Gallery,  Robert Bevan Memorial Exhibition, February 1926, cat. no.155 (as Houses in Sunlight, Hampstead);
Brighton, Brighton Public Art Galleries, Robert Bevan Memorial Exhibition, August 1926, cat. no.40 (as Houses in Sunlight, Hampstead);
Southampton, City Art Gallery,  The Camden Town Group, 1951, cat. no.11 (as Houses in Sunlight, Hampstead, dated  circa 1914-5);
London, Colnaghi & Co,  Robert Bevan, 1961, cat. no.17 (dated 1914);
Colchester, The Minories, Robert Bevan Centenary Exhibition, 1965, cat. no.27, illustrated pl.VII;
London, Colnaghi & Co , Robert Bevan 1865-1925, Centenary Exhibition, 23rd March – 13th April 1965, cat. no.37, illustrated pl.VII;
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, Robert Bevan Centenary Exhibition, April - May 1965, cat. no.37, illustrated pl.VII;
London, Hampstead Town Hall, Camden Town Group: Hampstead Festival 1965, 21st May - 4th June 1965, cat. no.6;
Colchester, The Minories, The R.A. Bevan Collection from Boxted House, 1975, cat. no.25;
London, Anthony d’Offay Gallery,  English Paintings from the Bevan Collection, 16th April – 9th May 1975, cat. no.6, illustrated;
New Haven, Yale Center for British Art,  The Camden Town Group, 1980, cat. no.11, illustrated.

Charles Ginner, 'The Camden Town Group', The Studio, Vol. 130, no.632, November 1945, illustrated p.129;
R.A. Bevan, Robert Bevan 1865-1925: A Memoir by His Son, Studio Vista Limited, London, 1965, illustrated pl.51; 
Apollo, April 1975, no.101, p.326;
Architectural Review, July 1975, no.158, p.57;
Frances Stenlake, Robert Bevan: from Gauguin to Camden Town, Unicorn Press, London, 2008, p.91, 142, 148.

The Artist's Wife, 1925
R.A. Bevan, 1951
Mrs Natalie Bevan, 1975 
Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London
Acquired by the Mellon Bank, Pittsburgh, by 1986
Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, London, where acquired by the present owner