Lot Essay
'In 'Storm Fury, Cuenca', the valley and hills appear almost insignificant compared with the massive disturbances above. The three dark forms gathered on the right of the sky take on a particularly threatening identity, as if Bomberg were tempted to see them as a trio of vengeful figures directing the storm. But the rest of the clouds are also agitated by the muscular stabbing and sweeping action of Bomberg's brush. They have a barely suppressed violence which reflects the artist's inner disquiet as much as the weather he observes, and in this respect they suggest that Constable's cloud studies may have helped Bomberg to use the study of natural forces as a means of expressing his emotional condition. For the turbulence in a Constable sky reflects the strength of the artist's feelings even as it testifies to his penetrating scrutiny of cloud formations. The two elements of the painting cannot be distinguished from each other, and Storm Fury, Cuenca, anticipates the finest of Bomberg's later works by acheiving a similar fusion'. (see R. Cork, loc. cit.).