AN ENGLISH CUBIST

WILLIAM ROBERTS:

We Want to be Done Together

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.

We Want to be Done Together, 1932
Red and black chalk, 19 cm x 28 cm

Inscribed with the title.
'Maynard Keynes and Lopokova commissioning a double portrait' – Reading 1983 catalogue. 'This may have been a preliminary idea for the portrait, but it is more likely to be a satirical comment on the words of the title which must have been spoken' – Cambridge 1985 catalogue
PROVENANCE: Gillian Jason Gallery (2014) > private collection (2020)
EXHIBITION HISTORY: Reading 1983 (dated c.1935), Cambridge 1985