British Art Evening Sale: Modern/Contemporary

British Art Evening Sale: Modern/Contemporary

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David Bomberg

Sunset, Mount Hilarion, Cyprus

Auction Closed

June 29, 02:19 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

David Bomberg

1890 - 1957

Sunset, Mount Hilarion, Cyprus


oil on canvas

unframed: 52 by 61cm.; 20½ by 24in.

framed: 69 by 79cm.; 27 by 31in.

Executed in 1946. 


We are grateful to Richard Cork for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.

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Lilian Bomberg

Colin St John Wilson

Bernard Jacobsen Gallery, London, where acquired by the present owner in 2000

Richard Cork, David Bomberg, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1987, no. C55, illustrated front cover and p. 283, with provenance Colin St John Wilson
London, Anthony d'Offay, David Bomberg, Works from the Collection of Lilian Bomberg, 25 February - 4 April 1981, no. 40
Jerusalem, Israel Museum, David Bomberg in Palestine 1923-1927, 1983, no. 68
London, Tate, David Bomberg, 17 February - 8 May 1988, no. 178, illustrated in the catalogue pl. 56, p. 130
Kendal, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, David Bomberg Spirit in the Mass, 17 July – 28 October 2016, no. 56, illustrated in the catalogue n.p.