- Artist
- William Roberts 1895–1980
- Medium
- Ink, watercolour and graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 451 × 359 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1960
- Reference
- T00322
Catalogue entry
T00322 ATHLETES EXERCISING IN A GYMNASIUM c. 1918–20
Inscr. ‘William Roberts’ b.r.
Pen, pencil and watercolour, 17 3/4×14 1/8 (45×36).
Purchased from the Reid Gallery (Grant-in-Aid with assistance from the Cleve Fund) 1960.
Coll: Louis Golding until 1958.
Exh: (?) Group X, Mansard Gallery, March–April 1920 (Roberts 1), as ‘Athletes exercising in a Gymnasium’.
Purchased under the title ‘Gymnastics’, this drawing is probably identical with ‘Athletes exercising in a Gymnasium’ exhibited at Group X in 1920. It is similar in style to the pen drawing ‘Boxers’ reproduced in the catalogue of this exhibition.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
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