AN ENGLISH CUBISTWILLIAM ROBERTS:The Art Worlda selection of picturesIllustrations © The Estate of John David Roberts. Reproduced with the permission of the William Roberts Society. Click on the images for more information on the works concerned and the background to them and, in some cases, to see other versions of the works. The Connoisseur, 1923 Artist and Model, c.1930 Hanging a Masterpiece, 1934 A satire on commercial art galleries and the commission charged on sales. No! No! Roger, Cézanne Did Not Use It, 1934 A satire on the Bloomsbury Group's reverence for Paul Cézanne. He Knew Degas, 1938 Walter Sickert is reduced (in Roberts's eyes) to painting images from newspapers, cut out by his wife. Rejected? No, Accepted!, c.1938 After the Royal Academy hanging committee has rejected a Wyndham Lewis portrait of T. S. Eliot and Augustus John has resigned from the RA in protest, John is imagined as painting a portrait of Lewis and submitting it to a hanging committee of Wyndham Lewises. Artist and Wife, 1940 I'll Put a Tuck in 'Em, 1948 The title refers to a response made by Stanley Spencer to Wilfrid Evill's criticism of the large sagging breasts in one of Spencer's pictures. La Nature Morte, 1948 The Critic Intervenes, c.1948 The Grand Chantrey Stakes study, 1949 A satire on the controversial role of the president of the Royal Academy, Sir Alfred Munnings a celebrated painter of horses in the administration of the Chantrey Bequest to buy works of art for the nation. Art Gallery, 1956 Wyndham Lewis and Sir John Rothenstein, director of the Tate Gallery, look on as art critics visit an exhibition. The Something Road Group, c.1956 The title is presumably a parody of artists' groups taking their name from specific locations, such as the Euston Road Group. The Vorticists at the Restaurant de la Tour Eiffel, Spring 1915, 19612 An 'imaginative evocation rather than an historically accurate record' of the launching of the Vorticist magazine Blast, which actually took place with a meal at the Dieudonné Restaurant in St James's in July 1914. The Amateur and the Professional, 1970 The image is of Winston Churchill and Picasso. The Avant-guard [sic], 1970 Home page | Chronology | Bibliography | Collections | Exhibitions News | Gallery | Auction results | The artists house | Contact List of works illustrated on the site Catalogue raisonné: chronological | alphabetical |