AN ENGLISH CUBIST
WILLIAM ROBERTS:
French Sailors on the Deck of a Ship
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.
French Sailors on the Deck of a Ship (aka French Sailors), c.1926?
(dating from the 1920s: 'Roberts rejects the sharp forms of his early style in favour of a more rounded classicism' – John David Roberts, Cambridge 1985)
Pencil and watercolour, 37.5 cm x 30 cm
PROVENANCE: Desmond Coke > Sotheby's 23 July 1931 (as French Sailors, in lot 138 with Street Acrobats 1923 and Family and Dog c.1926; £18) > Maynard Keynes > King's College, Cambridge
EXHIBITION HISTORY: Cambridge 1985
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