The William Roberts Society

William Roberts:

Soldiers Hanging Camouflage Screens Roclincourt, Arras, Spring 1917

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.

Soldiers Hanging Camouflage Screens Roclincourt, Arras, Spring 1917 (aka Soldiers Erecting Camouflage at Roclincourt, near Arras – Tate Gallery 1965), suggest 1918
Ink and watercolour, 40 cm x 34 cm

'The artist told the V&A that it was painted in 1918 but it could equally well have been done early in 1919. He was planning at this period to have an exhibition of drawings of war subjects. Unfortunately, shortage of money obliged him, about June 1919, to sell most of the drawings that he had gathered together and the exhibition never materialised' – Tate Gallery 1965 catalogue, p. 23.

PROVENANCE: ex- E. M. O'R. Dickey > Victoria & Albert Museum (1962)
EXHIBITION HISTORY: Tate Gallery 1965, Leeds/Ben Uri Gallery 2003