AN ENGLISH CUBIST

WILLIAM ROBERTS:

Playmates

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Playmates, 1957 (signed and dated)
Pencil and watercolour, squared, 51.5 cm x 36.5 cm

'Playmates features Ernest and Sadie Cooper's borzoi, Igor, their Siamese cat, Tara, and the pigeons, goats and muscovy ducks with which they shared their Sussex mill' – Sotheby's catalogue, 3 Dec. 1998

Dean's Mill, Ernest Cooper's mill near Lindfield, Sussex

PROVENANCE: Ernest Cooper > Sotheby's 3 Dec. 1998 (£4,830)
EXHIBITION HISTORY: Worthing 1972
REPRODUCED: The Worthing 1972 catalogue notes that this image was used for a Christmas card.
Cf. Ernest Cooper, Esq. c.1949