LE BAS, Edward

Edward Le Bas RA (1904-1966) read architecture at Cambridge University in 1924. He studied for a short while in Paris before studying painting at the Royal College of Art in London from 1924. Le Bas exhibited works, mostly interior scenes and flower works, at the Royal Academy, with the London Group, the New English Art Club and had solo shows at the Lefevre Gallery and the Michael Parkin Gallery. He was elected a member of the Royal Academy in 1953 and numerous public galleries in Britain, including the Tate, and in Australia and South Africa hold examples of his paintings. It is noted in The Art of Bloomsbury by Richard Shone that in 1946 Duncan Grant was a frequent visitor and often worked at 53 Bedford Square, the house of Edward Le Bas, and that Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and Le Bas took a painting trip to Dieppe in the Autumn of 1946.