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

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Exhibited: Arts Council, 1956, no. 43.
London, Royal Academy,
Gauguin and the School of Pont-Aven
, 1989. Montréal, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal,
Gauguin et L'école de Pont-Aven
, February - April 1995.
San Diego, San Diego Museum of Art,
Gauguin and the School of Pont-Aven
, September 1994 - September 1996.

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Notes: PROPERTY FROM A EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION

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'That Bevan also became acquainted with the work of Vincent Van Gogh ... is implied by such drawings of Bevan's as The Muck Cart and Sabot Makers, Brittany, both dating from circa 1894' (see F. Gordon Roe, The Adventurous Robert Bevan, The British Racehorse, 1958, p. 118).

We are very grateful to Patrick Baty for his assistance cataloguing lots 50-51.