Description:
[§]
MERLYN
EVANS
(WELSH
1910-1973)







THE
CONQUEST
OF
TIME







Signed
and
dated
'34
in
plate,
signed
and
inscribed
with
title
and
numbered
6/50
in
pencil
to
margin,
etching







25cm
x
20cm
(9.75in
x
8in)
(plate
size)



















































Notes:
Note:






Born
in
Cardiff
but
raised
in
Glasgow,
Evans
studied
at
Glasgow
School
of
Art
and
in
1930,
exhibited
at
the
Royal
Scottish
Academy.
In
1931,
he
was
awarded
the
Haldane
Travelling
Scholarship
and
visited
Berlin,
Copenhagen
and
Paris.
Later
that
year
he
won
a
free
place
at
the
Royal
College
of
Art
in
London.
In
1934
Evans
became
art
master
at
Wilson''s
Grammar
School
in
Camberwell.
From
here,
he
made
frequent
trips
to
Paris
where
he
met
Mondrian,
Kandinsky,
Giacometti,
Max
Ernst
and
William
Hayter.
He
also
exhibited
with
the
London
Group
and
at
the
International
Surrealist
Exhibition
during
this
period.
Evans
moved
to
South
Africa
to
take
up
a
teaching
post
in
1938
and
enlisted
in
the
Signals
Corps
in
the
South
African
Army
in
1942.
In
1946
he
moved
back
to
London
where
his
artistic
career
developed.
In
1949
he
had
his
first
one-man
exhibition
at
the
Leicester
Galleries,
where
he
exhibited
in
1952,
1953
and
1955.
In
1956
the
Whitechapel
Gallery
held
a
retrospective
of
his
work.
He
continued
to
exhibit
regularly
during
the
1960s
and
in
1963
took
a
studio
in
St
Ives
for
the
summer,
where
he
went
annually
thereafter.
Evans
took
a
post
as
the
exchange
artist
in
residence
at
the
Art
Institute
of
Chicago
in
1967
which
allowed
him
to
visit
New
York.
Here
he
met
Mark
Rothko,
Barnett
Newman
and
Robert
Motherwell.
On
his
return
to
London,
Marlborough
Fine
Art
held
a
one-man
exhibition
for
him
entitled
''Events
and
Abstractions''.
The
Welsh
Arts
Council
commissioned
a
triptych
of
his
aquatints
the
following
year
and
in
1972
the
Victoria
and
Albert
Museum
held
an
exhibition
of
his
graphic
work.


This
work
relates
to
an
oil
painting
of
the
same
title
which
is
held
in
the
collection
of
Tate,
UK.
The
oil
is
currently
on
loan
to
the
Scottish
National
Gallery
of
Modern
Art
and
features
in
their
current
exhibition,
''A
New
Era:
Scottish
Modern
Art,
1900-1950''