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)
Marjorie Reading, 1931

£875.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Woman Sewing c.1925

£295.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Young Woman Reading a Letter, c. 1927

£475.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Sketches of clarinets

£280.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Cat Sketches, c.1926

£275.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
The Law-abiding Citizen! c.1927

£745.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Sketch for Bedtime, c.1926

£425.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Story Time, c.1926

£750.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Some Games…c. 1958

£900.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Fancy Dress Ball, 1926

£1,325.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
‘Saturnalia’ c.1926

£1,950.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Service! c. 1924

£255.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Laddie, The Intruder, c.1923

£900.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
What fools…c.1926

£685.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Portrait of William Dunbar, 1922

£895.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Woman in Red, c. 1927

£475.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Young Boy Scout, c 1925

£950.00

Reserved
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Girl looking upwards, c.1927
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Unidentified Woman with Parrot Brooch, c. 1927

£485.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Seated Nude Study

£325.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Reclining Male Nude Study

£490.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Standing Nude Studies

£350.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Head and Shoulders Male Study

£475.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
April Fool!

£480.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Sacred Music on Sundays’

£275.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Study 2 related to Princess Caroline

£775.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Landscape 1

£700.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Landscape 2

£975.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Artist Sketching

£700.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
View over fields

£975.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
View across farm buildings

£1,675.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Morning Tasks

£550.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Study for Children and Hands

£375.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
The Young Artist, circa 1920

£760.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Children Playing

£650.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Child Playing the Banjo

£375.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Study related to Princess Caroline

£250.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Unidentified Etching

£350.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Figure Sitting

£350.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Various sketches, mostly of the dancing figure of Pomona for a Christmas card design for 1947

£575.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Unidentified study, c.1956

£775.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Laddie, the family dog, asleep on a chair

£900.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Florence Dunbar Peeling Apples c.1922

£300.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Miss T. and begging dog!

£175.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Christmas Tree in a pot

£350.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Seated Nude Study 2

£350.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Nude Study of Woman Sitting

£600.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Nude Study with Hand on Hip

£200.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Seated Nude Study 1

£275.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Figure study for the personification of April for Country Life 1938 Gardener’s Diary, 1937

£580.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Portrait

£375.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Study for Seated Woman reading

£250.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Study for Seated Woman

£250.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Flower Show Illustrations

£135.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Chalk Nude Study with Sketching Figure in Foreground

£300.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Sitting Nude Study with Umbrella

£200.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
The Farming Year Poster

£500.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Farming Equipement 1

£365.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Farming Sketch

£375.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Various Figure Studies including a Ballerina

£500.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Nude Study with artist at work

£350.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Nude Figure Studies

£300.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
The horse gin

£325.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Study for Farm Dictionary

£325.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Prune’

£300.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Royal College of Art Sketch Club Annual Summer Camp, 1930

£895.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Portrait of an Unidentified Woman

£970.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Pencil sketch for Portrait of an Airwoman, 1944

£1,500.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Seated Woman with Sleeping Dog

£1,500.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Portrait of an Unidentified Man, c.1925

£1,375.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Ring-a-ring-a-rosies

£795.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Cape Capers!

£350.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Trenching or double-digging, 1938

£525.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
A diagrammatic explanation of trenching or double digging

£1,750.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Moving into the Cedars, 1924

£1,375.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Nude standing with hand on thigh

£600.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Portrait sketch of an unidentified friend

£395.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Sketch of Family Reading

£475.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Studies of Leaves, 1930’s

£1,475.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Sketches of men and women involved in various activities, of unknown purpose or destination

£500.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
The Artist at Her Drawing Board, mid-1920s

£450.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Potato Harvesting, 1954

£785.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
The garden of The Elms, 1956

£1,950.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
The Garden at the Elms, Winter, 1956

£1,950.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Study for Gardener’s Choice: Himalayan Primrose with vignettes of a gardener to the margins

£975.00

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

£750.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Sketches of children in various poses.

£1,100.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Sheet of figure studies with artist looking at herself in a handheld mirror

£800.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Preliminary study for Mercatora

£385.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Sheet of African figures

£745.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Sheet of studies for Mercatora

£800.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Artist’s sister sewing

£1,400.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Study for allegorical figure

£700.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Study of Charles Mahoney drawing plants

£520.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Faith, Hope and Charity, 1950

£400.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
The artist’s sister sleeping in an armchair

£425.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Sheet of non-contemporaneous studies, some with reference to images in Country Life 1938 Gardener’s Diary, others experimenting with Indian ink, c.1948

£975.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Studies of leaves and flowers.

£575.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Art school study of a lady seated on a Windsor chair

£950.00

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Sheet of studies with figures gardening

£1,400.00