Lot 64
  • 64

David Bomberg

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description

  • David Bomberg
  • Figure Composition
  • charcoal
  • 56 by 75cm.; 22 by 29½in.

Provenance

Fischer Fine Art, London
Rex Irwin, Sydney
Gillian Jason Modern and Contemporary Art, London

Exhibited

London, Fischer Fine Art, Bomberg, Paintings, Drawings, Watercolours and Lithographs, March - April 1973, no.104;
London, Fischer Fine Art, A Tribute to Lilian Bomberg, March - April 1985, no.37;
Sydney, Rex Irwin, David Bomberg Works on Paper, 12 - 30 July 1988, no.10.

Condition

The sheet is sound and is slightly undulating. There is an old repaired tear approx 1in. long in the bottom left corner and some minor old creases in the bottom left corner. There are old pinholes in the corner, a horizontal crease to the sheet below the upper edge, an old minor tear approx 0.5in. long to the centre of the bottom edge and a further old minor tear approx 0.5in long to the left of the figure in the bottom left quadrant, otherwise in good overall condition. Held in a simple wood frame under glass; unexamined out of frame. Please telephone the department on 020 7293 5381 if you have any questions regarding the present work.
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Catalogue Note

Executed circa 1919.