
Not on display
- Artist
- William Roberts 1895–1980
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 1905 × 1295 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1964
- Reference
- T00660
Display caption
Roberts often drew inspiration for figure compositions from the areas of London where he lived. Between 1946/7 and 1980 he lived in St Mark's Crescent, near Regent's Park. Here, especially on Sundays and bank holidays, the artist observed people engaged in leisure activities on and around the lake. The importance to Roberts of the relationship between figures and narrative can be gleaned in his 'Comments', (June 1964): 'Several years ago there was an advertisement that appeared in the newspapers that impressed me very much; it showed a man bending forward and clutching his back with one hand in a sudden gesture of agony; beneath the design were the words: Every picture tells a story
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Gallery label, August 2004
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Catalogue entry
William Roberts b. 1895
T00660 The Lake 1964
Inscr. ‘William Roberts’ b.r.
Canvas, 75 x 51 (190.5 x 129.5).
Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1964.
Exh: R.A., 1964 (105).
Repr: R.A. Illustrated, 1964, p. 37; William Roberts, Paintings and Drawings 1909–1964, 1964, p. 32.
Partly inspired, like a number of Roberts’s other works, by the lake in Regent’s Park.
Published in The Tate Gallery Report 1964–1965, London 1966.
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- leisure and pastimes(7,757)
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- recreational activities(2,838)
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- boating(66)
- animals: birds(1,271)
- dog - non-specific(1,043)
- lake(1,812)
- actions: processes and functions(2,148)
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- looking / watching(580)
- girl(1,103)
- black(805)
- UK countries and regions(24,402)
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- England(19,249)
- Regent’s Park(28)
- transport: water(8,024)
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- boat, rowing(689)
- boat, sailing(3,531)
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