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WILLIAM ROBERTS:

The Char


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.


The Char, 1924

The Char, 1924 (painted in Fitzroy Street)
Oil on canvas, 43.3 cm x 33 cm

PROVENANCE: William Roberts > Lord Duveen > Tate Gallery (N04148, 1926)
EXHIBITION HISTORY: Tate Gallery 1965
REPRODUCED: Roberts, Paintings 1917–1958, p. 31, where dated 1923, though in a letter of 1 August 1951 to the Tate Gallery (in the Tate archive) Roberts wrote that this picture was painted, to the best of his knowledge, in 1924.




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