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WILLIAM ROBERTS:

Woman Picking Nuts



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Woman Picking Nuts

Woman Picking Nuts (aka Olive Picking), c.1953
Pen and ink, 10 cm x 15 cm

A design produced for Ernest Cooper's London Health Centre Ltd. Although exhibited as 'Olive picking' as one of '7 designs for tailpieces in a catalogue' at Worthing in 1972, the shape of the leaves makes it more likely that it is nuts that are being gathered. It is is not known in exactly what catalogue this drawing was used.
PROVENANCE: Ernest Cooper> Sotheby's 3 Mar. 1999 (lot 120, with 12 other drawings, £10,925) > Abbott & Holder > ? (£1,800) > Bonhams Knightsbridge 22 Mar. 2023 (£8,287.50)
EXHIBITION HISTORY: Worthing 1972, Abbott & Holder 1999 (where dated c.1945 and listed as 'A woman picking nuts' but labelled 'Olive picking')




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