Acquired by Wifrid A. Evill January 1952 for £22.10.0 by whom bequeathed to Honor Frost in 1963
Exhibition History:
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, Modern British Paintings, 1940 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, no. 34);
London, Redfern Gallery, William Roberts, July – August 1942 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, no. 34);
London, Leicester Galleries, A Selection of Pictures from the Collection of Wilfrid A. Evill, October 1952 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, no. 20);
London, The Home of Wilfrid A. Evill Contemporary Art Society, Pictures, Drawings, Watercolours and sculture, April – May 1961 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, part IV, section 3, no. 6);
Brighton, Brighton Art Gallery, The Wilfrid A. Evill Memorial Exhibition, June – August 1965 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, no. 154);
London, Tate Gallery, William Roberts ARA Retrospective Exhibition, November – December 1965 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, no. 55). This exhibition toured with the Arts Council Tour to Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne and Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester;
Woking, The Lightbox, The Ingram Collection: The Art of William Roberts, 24 September – 18 December 2011;
Aberystwyth, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, The Human Face, 27 January – 12 March 2016
This painting covers several of the artist’s favourite themes: portraiture, the artist and his family, music and all manner of human activity. Roberts’ sense of humanity is underpinned by the clarity of his painting and drawing and the light influence of Cubism and to a lesser extent, Vorticism, on his work.
