Figure Study (Racehorse)

Details

DAVID BOMBERG (1890-1957)
Figure Study (Racehorse)
signed 'Bomberg' (lower right)
oil on panel
16 x 12 1/2 in. (40.6 x 31.7 cm.)
Painted circa 1913.

Provenance

with Fischer Fine Art, London.
with Richard Salmon, London.
Acquired by the present owner in December 1987.

Literature

R. Cork, Vorticism and Abstract Art in the First Machine Age: Vol. I: Origins and Development, London, 1976, p. 78, illustrated.
R. Cork, David Bomberg, New Haven and London, 1987, p. 58, pl. 66.
R. Cork, exhibition catalogue, David Bomberg, London, Tate Gallery, 1988, pp. 67, 145, no. 17, pl. 3.

Exhibited

London, Tate Gallery, David Bomberg, February - May 1988, no. 17: this exhibition travelled to Seville, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, June - July 1988; and New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, September - October 1988.

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