William Roberts, R.A.

d'Offay Cooper Gallery, whence purchased by Mr and Mrs Milnes-Smith, 22nd September 1969 for £147.

London, d'Offay Cooper Gallery, William Roberts R.A.: Drawings and Watercolours 1915-1968, September 1969, no.10, illustrated.

The sheet is sound and the paper is very slightly undulating. There is a pinhole along the upper edge, a very small 0.5cm tear to the upper left edge and there are some scattered spots of minor staining in the background otherwise in good overall condition. Held in a simple plaster gilt frame under glass; unexamined out of frame. The paper tones are slightly warmer than the catalogue illustration suggests.
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Although the 1969 d'Offay Cooper catalogue dated the present drawing to circa 1929 the extreme angularity of the forms would indicate an earlier date, perhaps 1923-25.

To be sold with a copy of the original purchase invoice dated 22 September 1969 and the exhibition catalogue.