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William Roberts:

Café Royal Scene



Illustration © The Estate of John David Roberts. Reproduced with the permission of the William Roberts Society. Catalogue information based on the catalogue raisonné by David Cleall. For this and full details of the exhibitions cited, see the links below.



Cafe Royal Scene

Café Royal Scene (aka Discussion in a Bar and Pimps in a Bar), c.1921
Pencil, ink and watercolour, 40.5 cm x 51 cm

Andrew Gibbon Williams describes this as a Café Royal scene with Augustus John central, seated, and Jacob Kramer in animated conversation with the two standing figures (Williams, William Roberts, p. 62, where the picture is titled Discussion in a Café).

PROVENANCE : James Kirkman.




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