Arts & Crafts, including the Aesthetic Movement - 22 Jun 2011
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A watercolour on paper by Eric Forbes Robertson, Paris, dated 1897 framed signed and dated with three leaf clover cypher 25.5 x 18.5cm.
Eric Forbes-Robertson (1865-1935) was the brother of two actors Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson and Norman Forbes-Robertson, he trained at the Academie Julian, Paris in the late 1880s with artists including Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis and Edouard Vuillard. In August 1890 he travelled to Pont-Aven in Brittany with Robert Polhill Bevan where he met Paul Gauguin.
Literature
Tate Gallery Collections, In The Forest, Pont-Aven, (TO1825) circa 1895 for a comparable work