AN ENGLISH CUBIST

WILLIAM ROBERTS:

Male and Female

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.
Images scanned from the Sedgwick copy of the 1926 Seven Pillars of Wisdom are used by courtesy of Mrs J. Sedgwick and are not to be further reproduced except by permission.

Male and Female, 1925–6
Pen and ink, 28.5 cm x 19.5 cm

Tailpiece drawing for Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: 'Farraj and I hired three of the merry little women, wrapped ourselves up like them, and strolled through the village . . . Some Turkish soldiers crossed our party, and taking us all five for what we looked, grew much too friendly' (ch. 93).
PROVENANCE: Bayard L. Kilgour Jr > Houghton Library, Harvard University (1966, MS Eng 1653, no. 32)
EXHIBITION HISTORY: Leicester Galleries (1) 1927, National Portrait Gallery 1988