AN ENGLISH CUBIST

WILLIAM ROBERTS:

Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple + studies

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.

Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple – study, 1922–5
Inscribed ‘1922’ elsewhere on the sheet, but see the note on dates for the oil version below.
Charcoal and red pencil, 13.3 cm x 15.2 cm

PROVENANCE: Estate of John David Roberts, accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to Tate 2007 (T12659)
EXHIBITION HISTORY: Tate Britain 2012

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Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple – study, 1925
Watercolour and pencil, 20 cm x 23.5 cm

PROVENANCE: Dr Harold Caplan > Bonhams 3 Dec. 2002 (£5,000)

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Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple, 1925
(also dated 1922 in Reading 1983 catalogue; 'Painted in Fitzroy Street at about the same time as "Dogs of the Beni Hillal"' – Tate Gallery 1965 catalogue; dated 1924 in Roberts, Paintings 1917–1958, p. 32)
Oil on canvas, 48 cm x 52.5 cm

'And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves' (Matthew 21:12–13).
PROVENANCE: Desmond Coke > Sotheby's 23 July 1931 (£56) > 'Tritton' > Sotheby's 21 Nov. 1962 > Jackman (?) > Thomas Jones > Sotheby's 13 Mar. 1974 (£4,800) > private collection > Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
EXHIBITION HISTORY: Arthur Tooth & Sons 1935, New Chenil Galleries (1) 1926, Tate Gallery 1965 and tour, Parkin Gallery 1976, Maclean Gallery 1980, Mayor Gallery 1982, Reading 1983, Newcastle 2004