
Not on display
- Artist
- William Roberts 1895–1980
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 514 × 397 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by Ernest Cooper 1980
- Reference
- T03075
Display caption
Gallery label, August 2004
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Catalogue entry
T03075 PORTRAIT OF A MAN LIGHTING A PIPE 1948–9
Inscribed ‘Roberts’top right
Oil on canvas, 20 1/4 × 15 5/8 (51.4 × 40)
Presented by Ernest Cooper 1980
Exh: RA, April–August 1950 (357); on loan to Southampton Art Gallery 1967–72; Paintings and Drawings by William Roberts, RA from the Ernest Cooper Collection, Worthing Art Gallery, April–June 1972 (35), as ‘Self-Portrait of the Artist’
Mrs Sarah Roberts told the compiler that although this is a self-portrait, the artist never smoked or wore a scarf.
Published in:
The Tate Gallery 1980-82: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions, London 1984
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