The Garden of Eden

細節

William Roberts, R.A. (1895-1980)
The Garden of Eden
signed 'Roberts' (lower centre)
oil on canvas
16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm.)
Painted in 1926

來源

with London Artists' Association, where purchased by Mr and Mrs Marks.
Isobel Powys Marks.
with Anthony d'Offay, London, where purchased by the present owner in 1987.

展覽

London, Leicester Galleries, Second Exhibition of the London Artist's Association, November 1927, no. 40.
London, Artist's Association, Paintings by William Roberts, June 1929, no. 10.
Hamburg, Kunstverein, Neue engglische Kunst, June-July 1932, no. 92.
London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Tate Gallery, William Roberts retrospective exhibition, November-December 1965, no. 32: this exhibition travelled to Newcastle, Laing Art Gallery, January 1966 and University of Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery, February 1966.

注意事項

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拍品專文

A fragment of label on the reverse of the frame of the present composition suggests that it was also exhibited at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh. The Garden of Eden was, however, rejected from the 1929 Pittsburgh exhibition on the grounds that American taste was not yet ready for such pictures, and was also taken out of a provincial exhibition in England by the mayor, newspaper articles and interviews resulting.