Lot 53: Ivor Roberts-Jones, R.A. (1913-1996)

Study of Soldier in Full Kit
with studio stamp (on the backboard)
pencil
8 3/4 x 8 5/8 in (22.5 x 22 cm.)
Executed in 1940.

Ipswich, Wolsey Gallery, Christchurch Mansion, December 1999 - January 2000, no. B/H E12.

P. Cannon-Brookes, Ivor Roberts-Jones, London, 1983, p. 11, no. 4, illustrated.

Roberts-Jones says of his drawings; "I have always enjoyed drawing for its own sake. I find that my drawing relates to my sculpture in two different ways. Firstly there are the drawings I do from the model. Sometimes they may be studies for portraits - but more often they are done for their own sake, when, perhaps, I am interested but prevented by time and circumstances from doing a sculpture. Also, I keep on drawing the heads I see around me - in the street or on the tube - and often I improvise upon these drawings in small sculptures" (exhibition catalogue, Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, Welsh Committee of the Arts Council, Welsh Drawings 1963, p. 13).

The present work was excecuted in 1940, when Roberts-Jones received his commission in the 53rd Welsh Division and before leaving to serve with the Jungle Field Artillery in Burma.

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