Crocks by Robert Bevan, 1865-1925

Robert Bevan, 1865-1925
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Crocks

Original lithograph in black ink. 1924-25. Signed with the blue monogram stamp. Numbered in pencil from the only edition of 40 impressions (plus three proofs).
Ref: Dry - Robert Bevan Prints, 39.

Extremely fine tonal impression. On pale cream wove paper. Excellent original condition; the faintest trace of a mount line. Full margins. Sheet: 15 1/8?x19 7/8?. Image: 11 5/8?x13 7/8? (294x353mm).

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A superb example of one of the most renowned British prints of the pre-war era.

Robert Bevan was one of the most gifted and individual painters of that vital period of revolutionary change in British art in the first 20 years of this century. As a young man he studied in London and then in 1890 at the Académie Julian in Paris, the school which had nurtured the birth of the Nabis style of Bonnard, Vuillard and Denis. Then, between 1891 and 1894, he went to Pont Aven to study with Gauguin. It was Gauguin and the Pont Aven aesthetic which provided the most important impetus to his work, furthering his use of expressive form and colour to express emotion. When he returned to England in the later 1890?s this direct inspiration from Gauguin was to have a very important effect on the course of British painting, particularly in the period after 1911 when he became one of the founders of the Camden Town Group of avant-garde British post-Impressionint painters.

Bevan?s desire to use form to express emotion was perhaps at its most individual in his work in lithography. Pont Aven had first inspired an enthusiasm for prints, and he was to continue to make lithographs at periods throughout his life, the most important body of work dating from the 1920?s. Horses, and in particular urban horses, were one of his favourite themes, and they inspired some of his most significant and individual works. The lithograph horse studies, with their angular treatment of the forms and extraordinarily subtle pattern of tonal shading covering the whole sheet and leaving no areas of open paper surface, are amongst the greatest British prints of their era.