Robert Polhill Bevan (1865-1925) British. "Study for Horse D...

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£1,500 - £2,500

Robert Polhill Bevan (1865-1925) British. "Study for Horse Dealers at the Barbican" (c.1918), Charcoal, Inscribed on a label verso, 12" x 8" (30.5 x 20.3cm). Provenance: Robin de Beaumont (1926-2023) Park Walk, Chelsea, c.1981, to the present owner. Notes: Robert Bevan made many sketches of the horse sales at the Barbican Repository which were used as the bases for large scale oil paintings and culminated in his famous series of original lithographs which included "Horse Dealers at the Barbican (Barbican No. 2)", published in 1921. The Barbican horse sale started sometime in the eighteenth century and lasted some two hundred years. Located at 56 Barbican, in the Aldersgate district of the City of London, it operated under a variety of names at different times. When Bevan first visited it was called the Royal City Horse and Carriage Repository, but in 1919 it changed its name to the Barbican Repository.