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William Roberts (1895 − 1980) FOLK DANCE

1938

The painting for which this is a study was originally entitled The Lambeth Walk. It clearly does not show the Lambeth Walk, a strutting, jaunty dance that made play on the evening promenade and became the subject of a popular song by Noel Gay in 1937 www.bbc.co.uk/london/yourlondon/london_history/lambeth_walk. The work was titled The Folk Dance when shown at the Redfern Gallery, London in summer 1942 and shows six couples dancing a reel to the music of an accordian and a violin.

Accession Number P2626
Dimensions 21.5 X 32 CM
Media WATERCOLOUR ON PAPER SQUARED UP FOR ENLARGEMENT

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Work of art made with paint on a surface. Often the surface, also called a support, is a tightly stretched piece of canvas, paper or a wooden panel. Painting involves a wide range of techniques and materials, along with the artist's intellectual concerns effecting the content of a work.

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People

Past exhibitions

AGUARELAS E DESENHOS INGLSES DO SECULO VINTE

1955
- Portugal, Lisbon, SECRETARIADO NACIONAL DA INFORMACAO

BRITISH DRAWINGS AND WATERCOLOURS FROM ROWLANDSON TO RILEY

1982
- Scotland, Edinburgh, THE ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY
- Hong Kong, Hong Kong, HONG KONG MUSEUM OF ART
- China, Shenyang, SHENYANG ART GALLERY
- China, Beijing, CHINA ART GALLERY

BRITISH DRAWINGS AND WATERCOLOURS OF THE 20TH CENTURY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE BRITISH COUNCIL

1980
- Germany, Karl-Marx-Stadt, STADTISCHE KUNSTAMMLUNGEN
- Germany, Weimar, KUNSTAMMLUNGEN
- Germany, Leipzig, ALTES RATHAUS
- Germany, Cologne, WALLRAF-RICHARTZ-MUSEUM
1978
- Czechoslovakia, Prague, KINSKY PALACE
- Czechoslovakia, Ceske Budejovice, THE HOUSE OF ART
- Czechoslovakia, Bratislava, SLOVAK NATIONAL GALLERY
1977
- Romania, Bucharest, NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
- Germany, Berlin, NEUE BERLINER GALERIE
1976
- Hungary, Budapest, NATIONAL GALLERY
- Bulgaria, Sofia, NATIONAL GALLERY
1975
- France, Bourges, MAISON DE LA CULTURE
1974
- Korea, Seoul, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
1973
- Japan, Tokyo
- Japan, Sendai, FUJISAKI DEPARTMENT STORE
- Japan, Yokohama, ART MUSEUM
- Japan, Nagano, NANGANO PREFECTURAL SHINANO ART MUSEUM
1969
- Chile, Santiago
1968
- Argentina, Buenos Aires
1966
- Algeria, Algiers
1965
- Hong Kong, Hong Kong, CITY HALL ART GALLERY
1964
- Lebanon, Beirut, SURSOCK MUSEUM
1963
- Gibraltar, Gibraltar, CALPE INSTITUTE
- Malta, Valetta, MALTA SOCIETY OF ARTS
1962
- Greece, Athens, CENTRE OF LETTERS AND FINE ARTS OF THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION
1961
- Finland, Helsinki
1960
- Austria, Vienna
1958
- Belgium
1955
- Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia
- Portugal, Coimbra, MUSEU DA NACIONAL MACHADO DE CASTRO
- Portugal, Porto, MUSEU NACIONAL SOARES DOS REIS
- Portugal, Lisbon
1954
- Israel, Haifa, MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
- Israel, Tel Aviv, TEL AVIV MUSEUM OF ART
1953
- New Zealand, Palmerston, THE SCIENECE CENTRE AND MANAWATU MUSEUM
- New Zealand, Wanganui, WHANGANUI REGIONAL MUSEUM
- New Zealand, Nelson, SUTER ART GALLERY
- New Zealand, Auckland, CITY ART GALLERY
- New Zealand, Wellington, CITY ART GALLERY
- New Zealand, Napier
- New Zealand, Christchurch, ROBERT MCDOUGALL ART GALLERY
- New Zealand, Dunedin, DUNEDIN PUBLIC ART GALLERY
1952
- Spain, Madrid, BRITISH INSTITUTE
- Spain, Barcelona, BRITISH INSTITUTE
- Germany, Heidelberg, KURPFALZISCHES MUSEUM
- Germany, Mannheim, KUNSTHALLE
- Germany, Konstanz, EUROPAHAUS
1951
- Germany, Dortmund, MUSEUM AM OSTWALL
- Germany, Munchengladbach, KUNSTHALLE
- Germany, Munich, AMERIKA HAUS
- Germany, Wiesbaden, LANDESMUSEUM
- Germany, Stuttgart, STAATSGALERIE

CONTEMPORARY BRITISH PRINTS AND DRAWINGS FROM THE WAKEFIELD COLLECTION

1950
- Fiji, Suva, FIJI ARTS CLUB
1949
- New Zealand, Hamilton, WAIKATO MUSEUM OF ART & HISTORY
- New Zealand, Rotorua, SOCIETY OF ARTS
1948
- New Zealand, Auckland, CITY ART GALLERY
- New Zealand, Wellington, NATIONAL ART GALLERY
- New Zealand, Napier
- New Zealand, Wanganui, WHANGANUI REGIONAL MUSEUM
- Australia, Brisbane, QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY
- Australia, Sydney, ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES
1947
- Australia, Hobart, TASMANIAN MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY
- Australia, Melbourne, MELBOURNE ROYAL EXHIBITION BUILDING
- Australia, Adelaide, ART GALLERY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA
- Australia, Perth, ART GALLERY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
- UK, London, VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM

DRAWING DISTINCTIONS

2003
- Poland, Lodz, MUSEUM SZTUKI-REZYDENCJA 'KSIEZY MLYN'
2001
- UK, Nottingham, CASTLE MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY
- UK, Milton Keynes, MILTON KEYNES GALLERY
- Russia, Nizhny Novgorod, MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
- Russia, Moscow, PUSHKIN MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
2000
- Russia, St Petersburg, THE HERMITAGE
- Canada, Whitehorse, Yukon, YUKON ART GALLERY
- Canada, Grand Prairie, Alberta, PRAIRIE ART GALLERY
- Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, WINNIPEG ART GALLERY
1999
- Canada, Toronto, Ontario, TIMMINS MUSEUM AND N E C
- Canada, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, ARCADIA UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY
1998
- Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, NATIONAL ART GALLERY
- Malaysia, Penang, PENANG MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY
1997
- USA, Phoenix, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM
- USA, Berkeley, UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM

FOR A WIDER WORLD

1991
- Argentina, Buenos Aires, MUSEO NACIONAL DE BELLAS ARTES
- Bulgaria, Sofia, CYRIL METHODIUS FOUNDATION
- Luxembourg, Luxembourg, MUSEE NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE ET D'ART
1990
- Ussr, Kiev, UKRAINIAN MUSEUM OF FINE ART

PASSPORTS: GREAT EARLY BUYS FROM THE BRITISH COUNCIL COLLECTION

2009
- UK, London, WHITECHAPEL GALLERY

WILLIAM ROBERTS A RETROSPECTIVE 1895-1980

2004
- UK, Sheffield, GRAVES ART GALLERY
- UK, Newcastle, HATTON GALLERY

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