Rhein river

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: The Edinburgh National Gallery (Scotland).

During the 1920s, Roberts created many paintings of people that are busy, playing games or just relaxing. He created this canvas from his fresh impressions from his river trip that the artist made by boat in the summer of 1927. The style that the artist used and then developed was a result of his fascination with the manner of Fernand Leger and his followers. Conditionally depicted figures, like some objects, gain some cubicity, and gradual transitions of shades and individual visually different colour spots make them voluminous. Such superimposed spots became more apparent in the artist’s later works.