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DAVID BOMBERG (1890-1957)

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Lot 16 | DAVID BOMBERG (1890-1957)
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DAVID BOMBERG (1890-1957)

Moorish Ronda, Andalucia

signed and dated 'Bomberg 35' (lower right), signed again, inscribed and dated again 'MOORISH/Ronda, Andalucia./David Bomberg/Spain 1935.' (on the artist's label attached to the backboard)

oil on canvas

24 x 22 ½ in. (61 x 57.2 cm.)

Painted in 1935.





Provenance

Lilian Bomberg, and by descent to Dinora Davies-Rees, the artist's daughter.

Mr and Mrs Israel Baum, Johannesburg, by 1967.

with Ivor Braka, London, by 1988.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 9 November 1988, lot 97.

with Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, where purchased by David Bowie in June 1994.

David Bowie, his sale; Sotheby's, London, 10 November 2016, lot 7, where purchased by the present owner.



Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Paintings and Drawings by David Bomberg and Lilian Holt, Reading, Museum and Art Gallery, 1971, n.p., no. 62, pl. 5.

Exhibition catalogue, David Bomberg: A Tribute to Lilian Bomberg, London, Fischer Fine Art, 1985, pp. 24-25, no. 60, illustrated.

R. Cork, David Bomberg, New Haven and London, 1987, p. 223, no. C40, illustrated.

R. Cork, exhibition catalogue, David Bomberg, London, Tate Gallery, 1988, p. 159, no. 123, illustrated.

Exhibition catalogue, Modern British Masters Volume II, London, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, 1990, n.p., no. 16, illustrated.

Exhibition catalogue, The British Imagination, New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1990, pp. 36-37, no. 11, illustrated.

R. Cork, exhibition catalogue, David Bomberg en Ronda, Ronda, Museo Jaoquín Penado, 2004, pp. 42-43, no. 4, illustrated.



Exhibited

Cambridge, Heffer Gallery, David Bomberg, May - June 1954, no. 15.

Newcastle, The Arts Council, Laing Art Gallery, David Bomberg: An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, May - June 1958, no. 27: this exhibition travelled to Swansea, Glyn Vivian Art Gallery, June - July 1958; Middlesbrough, Art Gallery, July - August 1958; Kettering, Art Gallery, August - September 1958; London, Arts Council Gallery, September - October 1958; and Bradford, Cartwright Memorial Hall, October - November 1958.

Coventry, Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, David Bomberg: Paintings and Drawings, September 1960, no. 51.

Liverpool, Hope Hall, David Bomberg, 1961, no. 29.

London, The Arts Council, Tate Gallery, David Bomberg: Paintings and Drawings, March - April 1967, no. 59: this exhibition travelled to Hull, Ferens Art Gallery, April - May 1967; Manchester, City Art Gallery, May - June 1967; Bristol, City Art Gallery, June - July 1967; Nottingham, Castle Museum and Art Gallery, July - August 1967.

Reading, Museum and Art Gallery, Paintings and Drawings by David Bomberg and Lilian Holt, June - July 1971, no. 62.

London, Fischer Fine Art, Bomberg: Paintings, Drawings, Watercolours and Lithographs, March - April 1973, no. 16.

London, Fischer Fine Art, David Bomberg: A Tribute to Lilian Bomberg, March - April 1985, no. 60.

London, Tate Gallery, David Bomberg, February - May 1988, no. 123.

London, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Modern British Masters: Volume II, November 1990, no. 16.

New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, The British Imagination, November 1990 - January 1991, no. 11.

Ronda, Museo Jaoquín Penado, David Bomberg en Ronda, October 2004, no. 4.
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