AN ENGLISH CUBIST

WILLIAM ROBERTS:

The Dancers + study

Illustrations © 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 Dancers – study, 1919
Pencil

REPRODUCED: Wyndham Lewis (ed.), The Tyro: A Review of the Arts of Painting, Sculpture and Design, 1 (London: The Egoist Press, 1921), p. 9; Cork, Art Beyond the Gallery in Early 20th Century England, p. 243
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The Dancers, 1919
(one of three panels – the third, of unknown subject, now lost – painted for the Hôtel de la Tour Eiffel in autumn 1919)
Oil on canvas, 152 cm x 116.5 cm

PROVENANCE: Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow (bought from Anthony d'Offay Gallery for 19,800)
EXHIBITION HISTORY: Hayward Gallery 1974, Anthony d'Offay Gallery 1984, Royal Academy 1987