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WILLIAM ROBERTS:

Street Acrobats

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.

Street Acrobats (aka Pavement Scene and Composition in Water-colour), 1923
Pencil and watercolour, 28.5 cm x 20.5 cm

Although dated as c.1913–15 in the Maclean Gallery 1980 catalogue (which incorrectly suggests that it could be a study for Overbacks 1915), this is actually a study for Street Acrobats in the King's College collection, which is signed and dated as 1923, and the finished watercolour is consistent with Robert's angular style of the early 1920s.

PROVENANCE: John Winter > James Hyman Fine Arts > ?
EXHIBITION HISTORY: Parkin Gallery 1976, Maclean Gallery 1980