Lot 94
£404
Auction: 28 October 2022 from 10:00 BST
London: Fairfax Hall, 1965. First edition, one of 105 numbered sets only, comprising title-leaf with (limitation statement verso) and 36 mounted colour prints after paintings by Gilman or Ginner, all loose as issued in original green crushed half morocco portfolio, complete with accompanying text volume (4to, original green crushed quarter morocco, housed in recess to portfolio inside front cover)
Provenance:
Robert Alexander and Natalie Bevan, Boxted House, Boxted, Essex.
Robert Bevan, Harold Gilman and Charles Ginner were all members of the Camden Town, London and Cumberland Market Groups active in London from 1911. The artist Edward Le Bas (1904-66) became financially independent after his father's death and from the late 1930s was an enthusiastic and generous collector. He became good friends wtih Ginner and was elected to the London Group himself in 1942. This portfolio celebrates the works he acquired by Gilman and Ginner, some of which were included in the exhibition A Painter's Collection, held at the Royal Academy of Arts, London in 1963.