Design for Coterie

Details

David Bomberg (1890-1957)
Design for Coterie
chalk, gouache and black ink
10 x 7.5/8 in. (25.4 x 19.4 cm.)
Executed in 1919.

Provenance

with Fischer Fine Art, London.

Exhibited

Sydney, Rex Irwin, David Bomberg Works on Paper, July 1988, no. 3.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Coterie was an avant-garde periodical founded by Oxford University law student Chamal Lal, with contributors including T.S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, Herbert Read, Edward Wadsworth and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. In December 1919 William Roberts designed the cover for number 3, followed by Bomberg's design for the cover of number 4.

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