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.

Works Featured in this catalogue

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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Self-portrait, c. 1927
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Allegory of Painting, c. 1935
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
August, c. 1937
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Mural Roundel, 1933-1936
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
The Parlement of Foules, 1933-1936
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Gadshill House,1937
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Study for personification of June for Country Life 1938 Gardener’s Diary, subsequently not used.
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Roses From Our Garden, Nov. 3rd 1926′
SKU: 11448
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Wheelbarrow Study
£450
SKU: 11456
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Plant study
£125
SKU: 11459
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Flower Study
£380
SKU: 11446
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Picking Fruit
£110
SKU: 11444
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Study for Farm Dictionary
£325
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Study for Hospital Train
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Shall We Gather by the River, c. 1925
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Industry and Sloth, c.1932
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Clara Cowling gardening, circa 1928
SKU: 11177
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Invitation to the Garden, circa 1938
£14,000
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Felbridge, circa 1926
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Self-portrait, c.1927
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Waternymphomania, circa 1928
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
RCA Sketch Club Summer Camp, 1930
SKU: 11103
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Pencil sketch for Portrait of an Airwoman, 1944
£1,500
SKU: 11095
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Portrait of a Musician, 1924
£800
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Sketch for the dust cover for A Farm Dictionary (Derek Chapman, Evans Brothers, London, 1953
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
The Conservatory at the Cedars
SKU: 11088
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
A diagrammatic explanation of trenching or double digging
£1,750
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Seated Model with Hairstyle ‘à la poissarde’, circa 1931
SKU: 11077
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
An Artist at His Easel (probably Robert Lyon), late 1920s
£2,750
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Studies and sketches for Putting on Anti-Gas Protective Clothing, 1940
SKU: 11057
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Study of a WAAF at RAF Gravesend, 1944
£1,650
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Studies of Leaves, 1930’s
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
The Artist at Her Drawing Board, mid-1920s
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
August, 1937
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Studies of vignettes for Country Life, 1938
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Joseph’s Dream, 1938
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
The Garden at the Elms, Winter, 1956
SKU: 10241
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Study for Gardener’s Choice: Himalayan Primrose with vignettes of a gardener to the margins
£2,500
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
December for the Country Life 1938 Gardeners Diary
SKU: 10229
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Sheet of figure studies with artist looking at herself in a handheld mirror
£1,500
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Design for June for the Country Life 1938 Gardeners Diary
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Design for unused title page of Gardener’s Choice, circa 1936
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Study of a figure gardening possibly for Gardener’s Diary
SKU: 10203
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Princess Caroline
£1,900
SKU: 10185
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Study of a young unidentified woman looking into a mirror.
£900
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Woman Selling Watermelon Slices, West Indies
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Joseph in Prison, 1949-50
SKU: 10086
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Study for July, Gardeners Diary 1938, 1937
£1,850
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Drawing of Cyclamen neapolitanum and Cyclamen Coüm for Gardeners’ Choice, 1937
SKU: 9732
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Study II for designs for an embroidered quilt [HMO 689]
£2,500
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Self-portrait, [HMO 766], 1958
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat, Where Have You Been [HMO 333]
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Study I for designs for an embroidered quilt [HMO 689]
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Three sketchbooks
SKU: 6743
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Studies for Mercatora, an allegorical painting (whereabouts unknown) [HMO 173]
£1,200
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Dorset, 1947-1948
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Jacobs Dream, 1960
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Men Stooking and Girls Learning to Stook. 1940
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Study at Sparsholt Farm Institute for A Land Girl and the Bail Bull, 1944 [HMO 40]
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Singling Turnips, 1943
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Seven Days
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
April,1937
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
The Woodcutter and the Bees, spring 1933 [HMO 309]
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Sacking Potatoes, 1948
SKU: 6685
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Colour study for sub-gallery spandrels at Brockley County School for Boys [HMO 551]
£2,350
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
The Dunbar family in the Garden at The Cedars, Spring (Version 1), c.1928 (HMO 75)
SKU: 6364
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Portrait of the Artist’s Mother, Florence, on a Bentwood Rocking Chair, c.1930
£29,500
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Go Shell, proposed design for Shell petrol. c.1937 [HMO 751]
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Land Workers at Strood, c. 1938
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
The Childrens Shop: mice (recto), birds (verso) [HMO 749]
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Sleeping Beauty, 10 minute sketch, c.1928 (HMO 786)
SKU: 5570
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Milking Practice with Artificial Udders, 1940
£100,000
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Autumn and the Poet, 1948-1960
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Portrait of the artist Margaret Goodwin