The Goats

Details

William Roberts, R.A. (1895-1980)
The Goats
pencil and watercolour
18¼ x 13¾ in. (46.3 x 34.9 cm.)
Executed in 1952

Provenance

Ernest Cooper, by whom purchased from the artist.

Exhibited

London, Leicester Galleries, New Year Exhibition, 1953, no. 27.
London, Tate Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain, William Roberts, 1965, no. 193; this exhibition toured to Newcastle, Laing Art Gallery; and University of Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery.
Worthing, Art Gallery, Paintings and Drawings by William Roberts 1972, no. 61.

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Lot Essay

A study for the major oil painting, The Goats, 1952 (Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne) which was painted for the Contemporary Art Society at the suggestion of Wilfred Evill in 1952. Evill presented it to the Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in 1956.

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