Robert Polhill Bevan (British 1865-1925)
A London Church, 1924
£1,512
Auction: 28 October 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
2/45, signed in pencil (lower right), numbered in pencil (lower left), stamped with the artist's monogram, lithograph on paper
Dimensions
plate: 29.5cm x 35.3cm (11.5 x 14in); sheet: 38.2 cm x 50.8cm (15in x 20in )
Provenance
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.88;
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.38.
Footnote
From a numbered edition of forty-five. The artist's son has explained that this work depicts the church of St John the Evangelist, Waterloo Road, London, seen through a railway arch (op.cit.) It is based on an oil painting of the subject made during the winter of 1922-23, whose location is unknown.