Robert Bevan

The Cab Horse

c.1910

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In Tate Britain

Walk Through British Art: 1900

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Artist: Robert Bevan 1865–1925
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions: Support: 635 x 762 mm
frame: 778 x 906 x 85 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Presented by the Trustees of the Duveen Paintings Fund 1949
Reference: N05911

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This picture was one of Robert Bevan’s four contributions to the first Camden Town Exhibition. It shows a horse having a blanket put over its back, between the shafts of a hansom cab. Bevan has used an anti-realist palette – the horse is violet-blue – and this was much remarked upon by critics. The use of vivid colour to suggest mood, atmosphere or emotion was characteristic of the post-impressionist painting of Van Gogh and Gauguin and many of the Camden Town painters at this time.

Gallery label, February 2016

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