Spring Flowers

In 1942, Lilian Bomberg encouraged her husband to turn again to a subject that he had first explored in 1937. She noticed a flower stall in Gloucester Road and began to regularly bring home a large bunch of long-stemmed flowers and display them in a porcelain bowl. Bomberg was gradually persuaded to paint the flowers, resulting in the exotic compositions which a contemporary critic described as 'veritable explosions in oil colour'.
(see W. Lipke, David Bomberg, London, 1967, p.85).