169. Roberts (William, R.A., 1895-1980 ) Standing figure, charcoal with blue crayon, on blue/green paper, 470 x 310mm. (18½ x 12¼ ins), signed in pencil, lower right, framed and glazed .
est. £2000 – £3000
After studying at the Slade, 1909-1913, William Roberts joined Wyndham Lewis in founding the Vorticist movement the following year. But, unlike Lewis and Edward Wadsworth, who explored the abstract potential of their geometric style, Roberts continued to use it to view the more everyday world, as in this study of a suited man, angularly poised, the outstretched hand picked out in a different medium.