AMBROSE MCEVOY, A.R.A. (BRITISH, 1877-1927) - photo 1
AMBROSE MCEVOY, A.R.A. (BRITISH, 1877-1927) - photo 2
AMBROSE MCEVOY, A.R.A. (BRITISH, 1877-1927) - photo 3

AMBROSE MCEVOY, A.R.A. (BRITISH, 1877-1927)

Lot 31
14.12.2023 13:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Starting price
£ 10 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1105771
Lot 31 | AMBROSE MCEVOY, A.R.A. (BRITISH, 1877-1927)
Estimate value
£ 10 000 – 15 000
AMBROSE MCEVOY, A.R.A. (BRITISH, 1877-1927)

The Engraving

oil on canvas

26 3⁄8 x 20 in. (79.9 x 64.8 cm.)





Provenance

The artist, until 1901, from whom purchased by

Frederick Brown.

James Staats Forbes Collection, London.

Mr S.D. Bles Collection, UK, by 1923.

Mrs Benjamin Sonnenberg Collection, New York.

with The Fine Art Society, London, May 1981, where purchased by

Sir John Lewis, O.B.E..

Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 22 October 2020, lot 57, where purchased by the present owner.



Literature

T. Martin Wood, 'The Pictures of Ambrose McEvoy', The Studio, 1907, pp. 96 - 101, illustrated p. 97.

C. Johnson, The Works of Ambrose McEvoy from 1900 to May 1919, London, 1919, p. 1.

C. Johnson, The Work of Ambrose McEvoy, compiled by Wigs, London, 1923, p. 61.

R. M. Y. Gleadowe, Ambrose McEvoy, London, 1924, p. 12, pl. 1, illustrated.

‘English Art of the Eighties and Nineties’, The Sphere, 10 January 1925, pp. 48 - 9.

J. Rothenstein, Modern English Painters: Sickert to Smith, London, 1956, p. 206.

E. Akers-Douglas (L. Hendra, ed.), Divine People: The Art and Life of Ambrose McEvoy 1877-1927, London, 2019, pp. 44-53, p. 46, pl. 10, illustrated.



Exhibited

London, New English Art Club, 1901, no. 53.

London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of works by late members of the Royal Academy & of the Iveagh Bequest of works by Old Masters (Kenwood Collection): Winter Exhibition 51st year, 12 January - 10 March 1928, no. 545.

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, British Paintings from the 17th to the 19th Centuries, 1 April - 4 May 1986, unnumbered.

Chichester, Pallant House, Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris, 13 May - 8 October 2023, unnumbered.
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