Evelyn Dunbar (1906-1960)

The rediscovery of this important collection of works by Evelyn Dunbar is a particularly engaging story. When in September 2012 the BBC Antiques Roadshow was held at Cawdor Castle, amongst the dolls, items of furniture and bric-a-brac that were brought by the queues of people waiting in the inevitable rain was a painting by Dunbar. It was the kind of moment that the television producers must cherish. The Neo-Romantic painting entitled ìAutumn and the Poetî (1960) had been brought to the roadshow by a relation of the artist and after it was appraised by Rupert Maas before the cameras it was sold and subsequently donated, through the initiative of LISS LLEWELLYN, to Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery. Ordinarily this outcome might have been the happy ending to a story, but in this case it was only the beginning. None of the works in the collection had previously been recorded, and so it is a remarkable discovery underpinning her position as one of the most significant female figurative artists working in Britain during the twentieth century.

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Works Featured in this catalogue

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
The Garden at the Elms

£3,500.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Life Class with full-length female nude in profile

£1,800.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Muse with Crown, Design for Christmas Card 2

£780.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Children Playing in Various Poses

£500.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Sheet of studies for Gardeners’ Choice

£975.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Studies II for the cover of Gardeners Choice, 1936-37 [HMO 363]

£380.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Various sketches

£650.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Small girl

£385.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Design 2 for personal correspondence

£550.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Preliminary study for Gladiolus tristis

£485.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Studies for Faith, Hope and Charity

£875.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Hot pie

£975.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Irises and aquilegias

£485.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Sheet with studies of faces in profile

£795.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Studies of a seated couple reading scrolls and a woman carrying bowls, mid 1930’s

£750.00

Forthcoming
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Design for personal correspondence
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
The Proposal

£940.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Seven figures

£490.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Gardener and various sketches, circa 1932

£685.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Layout for agricultural children’s book, circa 1948

£490.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Studies for Faith, Hope and Charity II, circa 1948

£590.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Sketches for Faith, Hope and Charity, circa 1948

£875.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Campanula Rapunculoides

£340.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
An illustration for an unidentified childrens story

£950.00

Forthcoming
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Studies of Geranium armenum
Forthcoming
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Sketches and designs for an unrealised painting entitled Evening in the Country
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Sketches of women

£695.00

Forthcoming
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Preliminary sketches for the supporters at either end of the Hilly Fields mural frieze at Brockley School
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Study for the Brockley Murals

£1,375.00

Forthcoming
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Study for the background to The Queue at the Fish Shop
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Study for background of A Land Girl and the Bail Bull

£2,350.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Studies of Gladiolus tristis for page 103 of Gardeners Choice, c.1936 [HMO 36, cat 53]

£480.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Studies of Gladiolus tristis for page 103 of Gardeners Choice, c.1936 [HMO 36, cat 55]

£350.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Studies of Gladiolus tristis for page 103 of Gardeners Choice, c.1936 [HMO 36, cat 54]

£435.00

Forthcoming
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
A set of 20 vignettes, purpose unknown, several of which can be associated with decorative projects Dunbar was involved with in the mid-1930
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Study for a Christmas card design, 1942 [HMO 340]

£450.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Sketchbook 2

£880.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Sketchbook 1

£440.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Studies for Faith, Hope and Charity, an unrealised allegorical painting [HMO 699]

£1,950.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Studies for Various Womens Land Army Activities, Including Singling Turnips [HMO 313]

£2,900.00

Forthcoming
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
September, preparatory drawing for Country Life 1938 Gardeners Diary [HMO 232]
Forthcoming
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Studies for the cover of Gardeners Choice, 1936-37 [HMO 363]
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Colour sketch for the Hilly Fields mural frieze at Brockley County School for Boys [HMO 525]

£2,875.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Roses of Britain [HMO 783]

£950.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
First page of a letter to Jane Carrington, c.1936 [HMO 688]

£990.00