Lot Essay
Bath Night is a study for the larger oil entitled The Wash, previously in the collection of Sir Kenneth Clark and given to Bolton Museum and Art Gallery in 1940.
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Bath Night
Details
William Roberts, R.A. (1895-1980)
Bath Night
pencil, watercolour and gouache
7 ¾ x 9 ¾ in. (22.2 x 24.8 cm.)
Executed in 1929.
Bath Night
pencil, watercolour and gouache
7 ¾ x 9 ¾ in. (22.2 x 24.8 cm.)
Executed in 1929.
Provenance
The London Artists' Association, where purchased by Leonard Elmhirst, December 1931, as 'The Family'.
Gifted by Dorothy Elmhirst to The Dartington Hall Trust, March 1965.
Their sale; Sotheby's, London, 16 November 2011, lot 103, where purchased by the present owner.
Gifted by Dorothy Elmhirst to The Dartington Hall Trust, March 1965.
Their sale; Sotheby's, London, 16 November 2011, lot 103, where purchased by the present owner.
Exhibited
Dartington Hall, High Cross House, 2001, 2007-2010.
Special Notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
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