With the artist’s studio stamp (under mount)

Black chalk, 29 by 19 cm (11 ½ by 7 ½ ins)

Provenance: the artist’s studio; with the Maltzhan Gallery, London

Bevan made trips to Pont Aven in Brittany in 1890-1 and again in 1893-94. In his second visit he came into contact with the colony’s most famous resident Paul Gauguin who dedicated a monotype to him in 1894. Slightly older than some of his contemporaries in the Camden Town Group (who would form some twenty years later) he was one of the first of them to visit France and engage with Post Impressionism both in its vivid colouring and undulating draughtsmanhsip – something evident even in monochrome sketches like this one.