Description
Signed and dated '34 in plate, signed and inscribed with title and numbered 6/50 in pencil to margin, etching
Dimensions
25cm x 20cm (9.75in x 8in) (plate size)
Footnote
Note: Born in Cardiff but raised in Glasgow, Evans studied at Glasgow School of Art and in 1930, exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy. In 1931, he was awarded the Haldane Travelling Scholarship and visited Berlin, Copenhagen and Paris. Later that year he won a free place at the Royal College of Art in London. In 1934 Evans became art master at Wilson's Grammar School in Camberwell. From here, he made frequent trips to Paris where he met Mondrian, Kandinsky, Giacometti, Max Ernst and William Hayter. He also exhibited with the London Group and at the International Surrealist Exhibition during this period. Evans moved to South Africa to take up a teaching post in 1938 and enlisted in the Signals Corps in the South African Army in 1942. In 1946 he moved back to London where his artistic career developed. In 1949 he had his first one-man exhibition at the Leicester Galleries, where he exhibited in 1952, 1953 and 1955. In 1956 the Whitechapel Gallery held a retrospective of his work. He continued to exhibit regularly during the 1960s and in 1963 took a studio in St Ives for the summer, where he went annually thereafter. Evans took a post as the exchange artist in residence at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1967 which allowed him to visit New York. Here he met Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman and Robert Motherwell. On his return to London, Marlborough Fine Art held a one-man exhibition for him entitled 'Events and Abstractions'. The Welsh Arts Council commissioned a triptych of his aquatints the following year and in 1972 the Victoria and Albert Museum held an exhibition of his graphic work.
This work relates to an oil painting of the same title which is held in the collection of Tate, UK. The oil is currently on loan to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and features in their current exhibition, 'A New Era: Scottish Modern Art, 1900-1950'