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Artist or Maker: Robert Polhill Bevan (1865-1925)

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Description: A Devon farmhouse
signed 'Bevan' (lower left)
oil on canvas
23 x 28 in. (58.5 x 71.1 cm.)
Painted circa 1917-18.

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Provenance: Given by R.A. Bevan, the artist's son, to his cousin, the present owner in February 1968.

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Exhibited: London, Gallery of the Alpine Club, Friday Club, April - May 1919, no. 1.
London, Mansard Gallery, Heal & Son Tottenham Cort Road, The London Group, May - June 1921, no. 24.
possibly Paris, Galerie Druet, Exposition d'un groupe de Peintres Modernes, June - July 1921, no. 2 as 'Une Ferme'.
possibly London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Exhibition of Modern British Art, March - April 1922, no. 37 as 'The Farm House'.

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Notes: A drawing of the same subject as the present lot, previously belonging to Ethelbert White (1891-1972) was sold at Christie's, anonymous sale, 10 November 1989, lot 212.

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