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WILLIAM ROBERTS, R.A. (1895-1980)

Lot 26
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ID 922575
Lot 26 | WILLIAM ROBERTS, R.A. (1895-1980)
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£ 40 000 – 60 000
WILLIAM ROBERTS, R.A. (1895-1980)

St George and the Dragon

signed 'William Roberts.' (upper left), inscribed 'St George and the Dragon' (lower left, under the mount)

pencil on paper, squared for transfer

10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm.)

Executed in 1915.





Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 11 December 1968, lot 288.

with Anthony d'Offay, London, where purchased by the present owner in August 1989.



Literature

Evening News, London, 23 April 1915 (St George's Day), ink line drawing illustrated.

W. Roberts, 8 Cubist Designs, London, 1969, n.p., pl. 6.

Exhibition catalogue, Vorticism and its Allies, London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, 1974, p. 86, no. 342.

Exhibition catalogue, Abstract Art in England 1913-1915, London, Anthony d'Offay, 1969, p. 31, no. 32, illustrated.

R. Cork, Vorticism and Abstract Art in the First Machine Age: Vol. II: Synthesis and Decline, London, 1976, pp. 386-387, illustrated.

Exhibition catalogue, Important English Drawings Relating to Cubism and Vorticism, London, Anthony d'Offay, 1986, n.p., no. 28, illustrated.

Exhibition catalogue, Futurismo e Futurismi, Venice, Palazzo Grassi, 1986, p. 312, exhibition not numbered, illustrated.

Exhibition catalogue, British Modernist Art: 1905-1930, New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1987, p. 94, no. 89, illustrated.

'When Artistic Rebels Set England Aglow', New York Times, 15 November 1987.

M. Antliff and V. Greene (eds.), exhibition catalogue, The Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World, Durham, The Nasher Museum of Art, 2010, pp. 108, 188, no. 11, illustrated.



Exhibited

London, Anthony d'Offay, Abstract Art in England 1913-1915, November - December 1969, no. 32.

London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, Vorticism and its Allies, March - June 1974, no. 342.

New York, Davis & Long, Vorticism and Abstract Art in the First Machine Age, April 1977, no. 41.

London, Anthony d'Offay, William Roberts: Drawings and Watercolours, November - December 1980, no. 6.

London, Anthony d'Offay, British Drawings and Watercolours 1890-1940, January - March 1982, no. 57.

New Haven, Yale Centre for British Art, Blast: The British Answer to Futurism, April - June 1983, no. 18.

London, Anthony d'Offay, Important English Drawings Relating to Cubism and Vorticism, February - March 1986, no. 28.

Venice, Palazzo Grassi, Futurismo e Futurismi, May - October 1986, exhibition not numbered.

New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, British Modernist Art: 1905-1930, November 1987 - January 1988, no. 89.

Durham, The Nasher Museum of Art, The Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World, September 2010 - January 2011, no. 11: this exhibition travelled to Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, January - May 2011; and London, Tate Britain, June - September 2011.



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Artist:William Roberts (1895 - 1980)
Applied technique:Pencil
Medium:Acrylic glass, Plastic
Art style:Modern art
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