Lot 133: •WILL ROBERTS (1907-2000) BIGGIN HILL CAMP, KENT, 1943

•WILL ROBERTS (1907-2000)
BIGGIN HILL CAMP, KENT, 1943
signed l.l.: WMR and inscribed and dated Billet Biggin Hill/1943, watercolour over pen and ink
17.5cm by 25.5cm; 7in by 10in
During World War Two, Roberts trained at the Colerne Airfield in Wiltshire where he captured this intriguing scene from the everyday life of the Wartime RAF?cadet. Roberts, one of the greatest Welsh painters of the twentieth century, was a scholar at Swansea School of Art, not far from his hometown of Neath, There he was discovered by Josef Herman, becoming the painter's great disciple and executing work in a powerful expressionist style reminiscent of his master. Always recognised as a particularly fine draughtsman, his earlier Wartime work is very rare.