ID 922572
Lot 22 | DAVID BOMBERG (1890-1957)
Estimate value
£ 150 000 – 250 000
The Dancer
signed 'Bomberg' (lower right)
crayon, watercolour and gouache on paper
26 1/2 x 21 7/8 in. (67.3 x 55.5 cm.)
Executed in 1913-14.
Provenance
The artist's estate, until 1968.
with Anthony d'Offay, London, where purchased by the present owner in September 1988.
Literature
W. Lipke, David Bomberg, London, 1967, p. 40.
Exhibition catalogue, Abstract Art in England 1913-1915, London, Anthony d'Offay, 1969, pp. 15, 43, no. 5, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Vorticism and its Allies, London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, 1974, p. 89, no. 364.
R. Cork, Vorticism and Abstract Art in the First Machine Age: Vol. II: Synthesis and Decline, London, 1976, pp. 395-396, 398, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Vom Klang der Bilder: Die Musik in de Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, 1985, p. 128, no. 199, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Important English Drawings Relating to Cubism and Vorticism, London, Anthony d'Offay, 1986, n.p., no. 8, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Futurismo e Futurismi, Venice, Palazzo Grassi, 1986, p. 295, exhibition not numbered, illustrated.
R. Cork, David Bomberg, New Haven and London, 1987, pp. 94-95, pl. C13, illustrated.
J. McEwen, 'Britain's Best and Brightest', Art in America, July 1987, pp. 32-33, illustrated.
S. Compton, exhibition catalogue, British Art in the 20th Century: The Modern Movement, London, Royal Academy, 1987, p. 149, no. 48, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, British Modernist Art: 1905-1930, New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1987, n.p., no. 48, illustrated.
R. Cork, exhibition catalogue, David Bomberg, London, Tate Gallery, 1988, pp. 80, 149, no. 50, pl. 15 and illustrated on the back cover.
Exhibited
London, Marlborough Fine Art, David Bomberg, March 1964, no. 59.
London, d'Offay Couper Gallery, Abstract Art in England 1913-1915, November - December 1969, no. 5.
London, Anthony d'Offay, David Bomberg: Drawings, Watercolours and Prints 1912-1925, June - July 1971, no. 5.
London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, Vorticism and its Allies, March - June 1974, no. 364.
New York, Davis & Long, Vorticism and Abstract Art in the First Machine Age, April 1977, no. 9.
New Haven, Yale Centre for British Art, Blast: The British Answer to Futurism, April - June 1983, no. 7.
Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Vom Klang der Bilder: Die Musik in de Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, July - September 1985, no. 199.
London, Anthony d'Offay, Important English Drawings Relating to Cubism and Vorticism, February - March 1986, no. 8.
Venice, Palazzo Grassi, Futurismo e Futurismi, May - October 1986, exhibition not numbered.
London, Royal Academy, British Art in the 20th Century: The Modern Movement, January - April 1987, no. 48: this exhibition travelled to Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, May - August 1987.
New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, British Modernist Art: 1905-1930, November 1987 - January 1988, no. 48.
London, Tate Gallery, David Bomberg, February - May 1988, no. 50: this exhibition travelled to Seville, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, June - July 1988; and New Haven, Yale Centre for British Art, September - October 1988.
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Artist: | David Garshen Bomberg (1890 - 1957) |
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Applied technique: | Gouache, Painted, Watercolor |
Art style: | Modern art |
Genre: | Portrait |
Auction house category: | Paintings |
Artist: | David Garshen Bomberg (1890 - 1957) |
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Applied technique: | Gouache, Painted, Watercolor |
Art style: | Modern art |
Genre: | Portrait |
Auction house category: | Paintings |
Address of auction |
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