Robert BEVAN (1865-1925)

 

THE CABYARD, NIGHT, c.1909-10
Signed: Robert Bevan, blue paint, lower right
Oil on canvas, 63.5 x 70 cm
000121

Exhibited
London, Carfax Gallery,The Camden Town Group, 1911, no. 31.
London, Carfax Gallery,Robert Bevan, 1913, no. 12.
Brighton Art Gallery,English Post-Impressionists, Cubists and Others, 1913-14, no. 36.
Brighton Art Gallery,Robert Bevan Memorial Exhibition, 1926, no. 34.
London, Guildhall Art Gallery,Trends in British Art, 1954.
London, Arts Council,Robert Bevan, 1956, no. 7.
Lisbon, British Council,Twentieth-Century British Art, 1962, no. 8
London, Colnaghi,Robert Bevan Centenary, 1965, no. 24.
Bradford, Cartwright Hall,Edwardian Reflections, 1975, no. 10.
London, Fine Art Society,Camden Town Recalled, 1976, no. 9.
London, d'Offay Gallery,Paintings of London by Members of the Camden Town Group, 1979, no. 1.
Newhaven, Yale Center for British Art,The Camden Town Group, 1980, no. 9.
London, Christie's,The Painters of Camden Town 1905-1920, 1988, no. 61.
London, Royal Academy,Art Treasures of England: The Regional Collections, 1998, no. 373.

Literature
R. A. Bevan: A Memoir by his Son (London 1965), pl.27.
W. Baron,The Camden Town Group (London 1979) p.211 ff, cat. no. 77, illus p.220, colour 
p.25.
S. Watney,English Post-Impressionism, (Cassell, 1980) p.48, illus p.64.
T. Parsons and I. Gale,Post-Impressionism (Studio Editions 1992), p.347, pl.351.
Wendy Baron,Perfect Moderns, 2000, pl. 14, p.114.

Provenance
Purchased, 1913.

This painting was the only one acquired by a public gallery during Bevan's lifetime.  Frank Rutter advised the Contemporary Art Society to buy it for the nation before a more discerning collector snapped it up.

 

ROSEMARY: LA VALLEE, 1916
Signed: Bevan, blue paint, lower right
Oil on canvas, 49.5 x 61 cm
H.1988/14

Exhibited
Exeter and Plymouth,Going Modern and Being British; Art, Architecture and Design in Devon,c.1910-1960, 1988.

Provenance
The artist's family
Anthony d'Offay Gallery
Purchased with the assistance of the MGC/V&A Purchase Grant Fund and The Pilgrim Trust, 1988.

The painting depicts the Blackdown Hills on the Devon/Somerset border, where Bevan spent several summers as the guest of H. B. Harrison, a wealthy patron.