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WILLIAM ROBERTS:

Brass Balls



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.


Brass Balls

Brass Balls (aka The Pawnshop, Outside the Pawnshop and Figures in the Shop), 1922
Oil on canvas, 101 cm x 76 cm

PROVENANCE: Lord Sieff of Brimpton (Israel M. Sieff) > ? > Tiroche Auctions, Israel, 27 June 2009 ($368,000) > Offer Waterman
EXHIBITION HISTORY: Chenil Galleries 1923 (‘grimly humorous and immensely animated … like a Cosimo Tura translated into modern life’ – P. G. Konody, The Observer, 18 Nov. 1923), Wembley 1925(as Outside the Pawnshop, £50), Pittsburgh 1926, Southport 1928, Manchester 1928 (as The Pawn Shop, 100 gns), Chicago 1928, London Artists’ Association (1) 1929 (as Pawnshop, 100 gns), Mansard Gallery 1930, Venice 1930 (as Monte di Pietà), London Artists’ Association (various)
REPRODUCED: Illustrated Souvenir of the Palace of Arts: British Empire Exhibition (London: Fleetway Press, 1925)




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