Not on display
- Artist
- William Roberts 1895–1980
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 813 x 508 mm
frame: 950 x 646 x 60 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1958
- Reference
- T00196
Catalogue entry
T00196 THE COCKATOOS 1958
Inscr. ‘William Roberts.’ b.r.
Canvas, 32×20 (81×51).
Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1958.
Exh: R.A., 1958 (333).
Repr: Sunday Times, 4 May 1958.
Painted during February and March 1958 (letter from the artist, 7 February 1959).
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
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