AN ENGLISH CUBIST

WILLIAM ROBERTS:

The Battalion Runner on the Duckboard Track

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.

The Battalion Runner on the Duckboard Track, suggest 1922
Oil on canvas, 60.9 cm x 50.8 cm

The visual style suggests an early 1920s date rather than a 1918–19 date. However, if this and ‘Feeds Round!’ were both 1922, why was neither included in the one-man show in 1923?
This work, reproduced in Richard Cork, A Bitter Truth: Avant-Garde Art and the Great War (London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994), appears to be lost.