AN ENGLISH CUBIST

WILLIAM ROBERTS:

Indolence + study

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.

Indolence – study (aka Sleeping Girl), 1945
(dated c.1942 on the backing board)
Pencil and watercolour, 12.1 cm x 17.5 cm

PROVENANCE: Bonhams 6 March 2007 (as Sleeping Girl; £2,640)

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Indolence (the artist's wife, Sarah), 1945
Red pencil, black chalk and watercolour, 35 cm x 52.5 cm

Sarah Roberts stated that she had 'posed for this picture in 1945 at Marston outside Oxford' – Sotheby's 19 Nov. 2008 sale catalogue.
PROVENANCE: Leicester Galleries > Sir David Scott (1952, £31.10.0) > Sotheby's 19 Nov. 2008 (estimate £6,000–£8,000; unsold)
EXHIBITION HISTORY: Leicester Galleries (1) 1952, Nuneaton 1960, Cambridge 1985