AN ENGLISH CUBIST

WILLIAM ROBERTS:

Rejected? No, Accepted!

Illustration © The Estate of John David Roberts. Reproduced with the permission of the William Roberts Society. Catalogue information based on the catalogue raisonné by David Cleall. For this and full details of the exhibitions cited, see the links below. Any auction prices quoted may not include all fees and taxes, such as VAT and Artist's Resale Right charges.

Rejected? No, Accepted! (aka Accepted), c.1938
(also dated 1920, Worthing Art Gallery 1972)
Pencil and watercolour, squared, 27.3 cm x 33.7 cm

A satire in response to the rejection of Wyndham Lewis's portrait of T. S. Eliot by the Royal Academy hanging committee in 1938. Augustus John resigned from the RA in support of Lewis. 'WR proposes a happier state of affairs in which John paints a portrait of Lewis and submits it to a hanging committee of Wyndham Lewises' – John Roberts, note in the Tate archive.
PROVENANCE: Sotheby's 13 Nov. 1985 (£5,000) > ? > Sotheby's 14 Oct. 1987 (£4,950)
EXHIBITION HISTORY: Redfern Gallery 1942, Worthing 1972, Albemarle Gallery 1989