AN ENGLISH CUBIST

WILLIAM ROBERTS:

Soldiers Putting Up Wagon Lines + study

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.

Soldiers Putting Up Wagon Lines – study (aka Putting Up Horse-lines), 1919
(also dated 1916–18, Hamet Gallery 1971)
Pencil, ink and watercolour, squared, 15.9 cm x 16.5 cm

EXHIBITION HISTORY: Hamet Gallery 1971 (as Putting Up Horse-lines)

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Soldiers Putting Up Wagon Lines, 1919
Black chalk on beige, 47 cm x 48.3 cm

'Wagon-lines were used by the Royal Field Artillery for tethering horses' – Tate Gallery 1965 catalogue.
PROVENANCE: Mayor Gallery > Rt Hon. David Bathurst > Christie's 9 Mar. 1984 (estimate £4,000–£6,000; unsold?) > ? > British Museum (bought from L. & R. Entwistle & Co. Ltd, 1989)
EXHIBITION HISTORY: Tate Gallery 1965, Exeter 1971, Morley College Gallery 1971, Hamet Gallery 1973, Entwistle Fine Art 1989