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

'[A]nd Jesus went up to Jerusalem, And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandises' – John 2:13–16.
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