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Under the Hammer
Robert Bevan1914
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Liverpool, United Kingdom
After settling in London in 1900 Bevan began to paint scenes of horse-drawn cabs and, as in this painting, horse sales. In these works the nobility of the animals is usually contrasted with the drab but respectful character of the onlookers. Bevan included among the latter studies his wife at the left and in the centre his daughter and himself.
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Details
- Title: Under the Hammer
- Creator: Robert Bevan
- Creator Lifespan: 1865/1925
- Creator Nationality: British
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Death Place: London, England
- Creator Birth Place: Hove, Sussex, England
- Date Created: 1914
- tag / style: Robert Bevan; auction; horse sale; daughter; urban; English; Post Impressionism; horse; animal
- Physical Dimensions: w637 x h637 cm (Without frame)
- Artist biographical information: After training in London and Paris, Bevan worked in the early 1890s at Pont Avon in Brittany where he met Gauguin. The influence of French Post-Impressionism with its emphasis on the flat, patterned surface of the painting and its use of prominent outlines, is very clear in Bevan’s work, but his paintings tend to use more subdued colours, appropriate to his English, urban subjects.
- Additional artwork information: This work features in the Walker Art Gallery’s new room ‘British Art 1880-1950’. To find out more follow this link: http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/collections/room-guide/room-eleven.aspx
- Type: Oil on canvas
- Rights: Bought from the artist's widow in 1933
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