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Presentation: Framed
Signed, dated and numbered 3/50
Engraving 7 x 6 in. (18 x 15 cm).
In a fine black and gilded late 19th century print frame

Evelyn Gibbs was the 1929 British School at Rome Scholar in Engraving. The Graveside is one of Gibbs' most evocative pre-Rome images. The monumentality of the figures owes as much to J. F. Millet as it does to the Italian Primitives.

Although planned as an edition of 50 it is likely that Gibbs printed far few.

We are grateful to Pauline Lucas for her assistance.
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Presentation: Framed
Signed
Etching, touched proof 7 3/8 x 6 3/8 in. (18.8 x 16.1 cm).
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Presentation: Framed
Signed
Line engraving, third and final state 6 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. (16 x 14 cm) each
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Presentation: Framed
signed and dated
Engraving 7 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. (20 x 20 cm).
Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist's estate.

In a gilded and natural wood flat section frame with square outer knull, glazed
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Presentation: Framed
Signed
Etching 5 7/8 x 5 1/4 in. (14.8 x 13.2 cm).

Provenance: The Fine Art Society
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Presentation: Framed
Signed,
Etching, first state, unique
15 x 9 cm.

In a black lacquer and gilded frame.

Thumbnail panels:

Evelyn Gibbs 1905-1991

Printmaker, draughtsman, painter and teacher, born in Liverpool, where she studied at the School of Art, 1922-6; at the Royal College of Art, 1926-9; then at British School at Rome, 1929-31. Taught at Goldsmiths College of Art and showed at the RA, NEAC, RE and other major venues. Morley Gallery held a posthumous exhibition in 1994. Gibbs was a fine draughtswoman in the classical tradition and her work is held by the Arts Council, the Tate Gallery, the Ashmolean Museum and other public collections.

Like many of the artists who studied at the British School at Rome - Monnington and Stroudley, for instance - having amply demonstrated a remarkable facility for realism, she latterly moved increasingly towards abstraction.

Selected Literature: Pauline Lucas, Evelyn Gibbs, Artist and Traveller, Five Leaves Publications, 2001.