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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 13, 2018 | Bonhams | London | Modern British and Irish Art | 10 | $****** - ****** | Dominoes (Study for Jeu) |
Works on Paper
19 x 16 cm (7.48 x 6.3 in)
pencil and pen and ink
signed 'William Roberts' (lower left) and partially titled 'Dominoes' (lower right)
Sale; Sotheby's, London, 11 December 1968, lot 292, where acquired by
Anthony d'Offay Couper Gallery
With Hamet Gallery, London, 8 January 1973, where acquired by
Private Collection U.K.
in the seminal Vorticist Exhibition. The Vorticist Group: The First Exhibition of the Vorticist Group, which was held at the Doré Galleries in June–July 1915. The show included no fewer than four oil paintings by Roberts – Overbacks, Two-Step, Jeu and Theatre, all lost or destroyed. Following the London exhibition, and in the midst of the First World War, Ezra Pound together with fellow American patron and collector John Quinn organised an exhibition in New York at The Penguin Club (Exhibition of the Vorticists, 10 January – 1 February 1917). Although Quinn financed the project (and bought nearly all the works afterwards), it was Pound who acted as curator and selected Jeu, amongst others, for inclusion. It was the last time the painting was to be seen in public and Roberts noted that 'Several paintings, including The Draughts Players and The Party, shown with the Vorticists at the Doré Galleries and afterwards bought by John Quinn of New York, were somehow destroyed in America' (William Roberts, Some Early Abstract and Cubist Work 1913-1920, 1957, p.8). Elsewhere Roberts suggests that The Draughts Players was probably a study for Jeu.
William Roberts, 8 Cubist Designs, The Favil Press, London, 1969
Dominoes (Study for Jeu)
signed 'William Roberts' (lower left) and partially titled 'Dominoes' (lower right)
pencil and pen and ink
19 x 16 cm. (7 1/2 x 6 1/4 in.)
Executed 1914-1915
