The old city, Ronda

Richard Cork comments upon Ronda drawings from this period, referring specifically to a drawing of similar composition (whereabouts unkown) which Cork illustrates (plate 269); 'The sheer grandeur of his surroundings may have intimidated Bomberg at first, but [other] drawings show how imperiously he managed to shake off any lingering hesitation and leave the minutiae of external appearances behind him. The forms of the Ronda rock-face soon become more summary and bare, recalling in their simplified masses the most minimal of his pre-war drawings. In one looming study Bomberg's charcoal reduces the town itself to a small row of buildisn teetering perilously on the plateau's edge. (see R. Cork, David Bomberg, London, 1987, p.208).