FOLK DANCE

© copyright The Artist's Estate

FOLK DANCE 1938

William Roberts (1895 – 1980)

Details

Dimension
21.5 X 32 CM
Media
WATERCOLOUR ON PAPER SQUARED UP FOR ENLARGEMENT
Accession number
P2626

Summary

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.

Glossary

  • Painting

    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.