AN ENGLISH CUBIST

WILLIAM ROBERTS:

Deposition from the Cross + studies

Illustration © The Estate of John David Roberts. 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.

Deposition from the Cross – study (aka Ladders), c.1926
Pencil, ink and red chalk, squared, 14.3 cm x 16.2 cm

PROVENANCE: Hamet Gallery > David Coates (1973) > ? (by descent) > Christie's 18 June 2019 (£32,500)
EXHIBITION HISTORY (as Ladders, dated 1916–18): Hamet Gallery 1971, Northampton 1971, Hamet Gallery 1973

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Descent from the Cross – study for Deposition from the Cross, c.1926
Pencil, 20.7 cm x 23.7 cm

EXHIBITION HISTORY: London Artists' Association (3) 1931 (8 gns), Parkin Gallery 1976

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Descent from the Cross – colour study for Deposition from the Cross, c.1926

EXHIBITION HISTORY: London Artists’ Association (3) 1931 (7 gns)

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Deposition from the Cross (aka Deposition), c.1926
Oil on canvas, 49.5 cm x 59.1 cm

'When the even [after Christ's crucifixion] was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple: He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed' – Matthew 27:57–60.
PROVENANCE: Sir Michael Sadler > ? > Christie’s 25 May 1945 > Mr & Mrs S. L. Jones > Blanche Jones (by descent) > Tate Gallery (T07740, presented 2001)
EXHIBITION HISTORY: London Artists' Association (1) 1929 (as Deposition, 60 gns), Rotterdam 2011, Tate Britain 2012