Private Collection

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

The Parlement of Foules, 1933-1936

SKU: 11578
Oil and pencil on paper

Size:
Height – 13.5cm
Width – 26cm

DESCRIPTION

Provenance:
The Artist’s Family
Presentation:
framed

Proposed for the Brockley School murals and named after the late mediaeval dream-poem by Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parlement of Foules is an allegory of love, largely about the pairing off and mating of birds.

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THE ARTIST

Evelyn Dunbar
Evelyn
Dunbar
1906 - 1960

Evelyn Dunbar studied at Rochester School of Art, Chelsea School
of Art (1927) and the Royal College of Art (1929’33). She painted
murals from 1933 -36 at Brockley School, a collaboration with her
RCA tutor (and lover) Cyril Mahoney (1903’1968) and in 1937
they wrote and illustrated together Gardeners’ Choice. 

In 1938 she set up the Blue Gallery in Rochester, exhibiting her
own work alongside that of Edward Bawden (1903’1989) and
Barnett Freedman (1901’1958) and others. In 1940 she was
appointed an official war artist, becoming the only woman (amongst
36 men) to be given a full time salaried position by the WAAC. 

She held her only solo exhibition at Withersdane, Wye, Kent
in 1953, although the WAAC included numerous pieces in touring
exhibitions ranging from Aberdeen Art Gallery to MOMA, New York. 

A posthumous exhibition was held in 2006 at St Barbe
Museum and Art Gallery, and in 2015 Liss Llewellyn mounted a
major retrospective of her recently rediscovered studio at Pallant
House Gallery. 

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