Lot 84
£4,032
Auction: 28 October 2022 from 10:00 BST
inscribed by another hand 'Ward's No. 1' (lower left), lithograph on paper
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist and thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature:
Bevan, R.A., Robert Bevan 1865-1925: A Memoir by his Son, Studio Vista, London 1965, another example from the edition repr. b/w pl.62 (as 'Horse Dealers' and dated 1921);
Dry, Graham, Robert Bevan 1865-1925: Catalogue Raisonné of the Lithographs and other Prints, The Curwen Press, London 1965, another example from the edition repr. b/w no.33 (as 'Horse Dealers (Ward's Repository No.1)' and dated 1919).
From an un-numbered edition of eighty plus three proofs. This work is also known as Ward's No.1. It is related to the oil painting Horse Dealers (Sale at Ward's Repository No.1) of 1918 which was purchased by Manchester Art Gallery in 1935 (acc.no.1935.157). Ward's Repository off the Edgward Road, London, was the first of the horse sale yards to close.