Merlyn Evans
(Wales 13 Mar 1910–31 Oct 1973)
- Title
- The trial
- Year
- 1949
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- tempera on duck
- Dimensions
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91.7 x 152.3cm; 116.3 x 177.3 x 9.3cm frame
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated l.l., black paint "Evans 49".
- Credit
- Purchased 1952
- Accession number
- 8695
- Location
- Not on display
- Provenance (1)
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Source unknown, Purchased by the AGNSW in London 1952
- Bibliography (11)
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Ted Gott (Australia) (Author), Laurie Benson (Australia) (Author), Sophie Matthiesson (Australia) (Author), Modern Britain 1900-1960, Melbourne, 2007, 252 (colour illus.).
Peter Tomory (United Kingdom) (Author), Anne Kirker (New Zealand; Australia, b.1947) (Author), British painting 1800-1990 in Australian and New Zealand public collections, Sydney, 1997, 78. cat.no. 613
Renée Free (Australia) (Author), Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue of British paintings, Sydney, 1987, 55 (illus.).
Author Unknown, The Adelaide Festival of Arts 1960: Souvenir catalogue of special exhibitions at the National Gallery of South Australia, Unknown, 1960. cat.no. 3
Whitechapel Art Gallery (England) (Author), Merlyn Evans Retrospective 1927-1956, 1956, (illus.). Plate no. XIII
South Wales Post 27 Oct 1955, 27 Oct 1955.
Ernest Brown and Phillips Ltd, London (England), Catalogue of the seventeenth annual exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculpture by artists of fame and of promise: part two, 1949. cat.no. 120
Daily Mail 07 Sep 1949, 07 Sep 1949, (illus.).
Rand Daily Mail 31 Aug 1949, 31 Aug 1949.
Daily Graphic 30 Aug 1949, 30 Aug 1949.
'An Important Picture' by Eric Newton, Sunday Times 28 Aug 1949, 28 Aug 1949.
- Exhibition history (6)
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Artists of fame and promise: part two, 1949, The Leicester Galleries, 19 Aug 1949–17 Sep 1949.
Modern British Painting 1900-1949, The Heffer Gallery, Oct 1949–Nov 1949.
Purchases and Acquisitions for 1952, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 26 Mar 1953–24 May 1953.
Merlyn Evans Retrospective 1927-1956, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 04 Oct 1956–04 Nov 1956.
Paintings by European masters: Adelaide Festival of Arts 1960, National Gallery of South Australia, 12 Mar 1960–26 Mar 1960.
Modern Britain 1900-1960, NGV: International, 15 Nov 2007–24 Feb 2008.
