AN ENGLISH CUBIST

WILLIAM ROBERTS:

Sheaves of Wheat

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Sheaves of Wheat, c.1953
Pen and ink, 17.5 cm x 7.5 cm

A design produced for Ernest Cooper's London Health Centre Ltd and reproduced in orange ink on the back cover of the 1956 revised edition of Bread: The Whole-Wheat Way to Health
PROVENANCE: Ernest Cooper> Sotheby's 3 Mar. 1999 (lot 120, with 12 other drawings, £10,925) > Abbott & Holder
EXHIBITION HISTORY: Worthing 1972 (not individually identified in the Worthing 1972 catalogue, but probably exhibited alongside other LHC material), Abbott & Holder 1999 (where dated c.1945)