David Bomberg,

British 1890-1957 -

Door - The Embrace, 1919;

coloured pencil and wash on paper, signed and dated lower right 'Bomberg 19', 26.5 x 20.2 cm (ARR)

Provenance: with Fischer Fine Art Ltd., London, no.F11,600 (according to the label attached to the reverse of the frame); Boundary Gallery, London

Exhibited: Fischer Fine Art Ltd., London, 'David Bomberg: Paintings, drawings, watercolours and lithographs', March-April 1973, cat. no.101 (according to the label attached to the reverse of the frame); Rex Irwin, Sydney (according to the label attached to the reverse of the frame); Fischer Fine Art Ltd., London, 'David Bomberg: A Tribute to Lilian Bomberg', March-April 1985, cat. no.20 Sydney (according to the label attached to the reverse of the frame)

Note: David Bomberg was a member of the Whitechapel Boys and studied at the Slade School of Art under Henry Tonks, and alongside artists such as Stanley Spencer, Ben Nicholson, and Paul Nash. He was awarded the Slade Prize for drawing in 1913, after which he travelled to France, meeting contemporaries such as Pablo Picasso and Amedeo Modigliani. In 1914 he co-curated an exhibition with Jacob Epstein, in which his works were shown alongside those of Modigliani, Kisling, and other prominent Jewish artists living in France. His first solo exhibition was held at the Chenil Gallery in 1914, where visitors included Augustus John, Marinetti, Duchamp and Brancusi. Bombergs work has been the subject of a number of solo exhibitions, including at the Israel Museum in 1983, at the Tate in 1988, and at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1979 when under the directorship of Nicholas Serota. His works are currently held at MoMA in New York, the Art Institute in Chicago, the Tate in London and National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh.