- Artist
- William Roberts 1895–1980
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 914 × 762 mm
frame: 1048 × 902 × 68 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1965
- Reference
- T00813
Catalogue entry
William Roberts 1895-1980
T00813 The Cinema 1920
Inscr. ‘Roberts’, b.c.
Canvas, 36 x 30 (91.5 x 76).
Purchased from Miss Honor Frost, as executrix of the late Wilfrid Evill (Grant-in-Aid) 1965:
Coll: Sydney Schiff; Mrs. Violet SchifF; Lords Gallery; sold Sotheby’s, 13 July 1960 (187, repr.); bt. W. A. Evill.
Exh: Forty Years of Modern Art 1907–1947, I.C.A., February–March 1948 (79); Wyndham Lewis and Vorticism, Tate Gallery, July–August 1956 (188), and Arts Council tour, 1956 (76); The Wilfrid Evill Collection, Brighton Art Gallery, July–August 1965 (151); Tate Gallery, November–December 1965, and Arts Council tour, Newcastle and Manchester, January–February 1966 (10, repr.).
Repr: Sir Joseph Duveen, Bt., Thirty Years of British Art, 1930, p. 163; William Roberts, Paintings and Drawings 1909–1964, 1964, p. 10 (dated 1919, entitled The Silent Screen’).
Based on a small cinema in Warren Street which is now used as a television studio. A squared up drawing for it in pen, pencil and wash belongs to the Manchester City Art Galleries. This corresponds in almost every detail to the finished work.
Published in The Tate Gallery Report 1965–1966, London 1967.
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