AN ENGLISH CUBIST

WILLIAM ROBERTS:

Folk Dance + study

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Folk Dance – study, 1936
Watercolour, 21.5 cm x 32 cm

PROVENANCE: British Council (purchased 1942, when it was dated 1938)
EXHIBITION HISTORY: Redfern Gallery 1942 (sold for 15 gns), British Council 1947, British Council 1951, British Council 1982, British Council 1990, British Council 1997, Newcastle 2004, Whitechapel Gallery 2009

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Folk Dance, 1936
Oil on canvas, 86 cm x 127 cm

'[E]xhibited at the London Group in 1938 under a title given by someone else, "The Lambeth Walk". However, it does not represent the Lambeth Walk, or, for that matter, any folk dance in particular' – Tate Gallery 1965 catalogue. PROVENANCE: Purchased from the artist by Ernest Cooper > Sotheby's 1986 > Sotheby's 22 June 1994 > private collection
EXHIBITION HISTORY: Leicester Galleries 1938, London Group 1938 ('the first record in art of a phenomenon in the modern ballroom: the change from the face-to-face shuffle into more open, even individual, steps which point to the return of the square dance' – The Bystander, 30 Nov. 1938), Redfern Gallery 1942, Tate Gallery 1965, Southampton 1967, Worthing 1972
REPRODUCED: The Bystander, 30 Nov. 1938