David Bomberg (1890-1957)
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David Bomberg (1890-1957)

Sunlight and Flowers

細節
David Bomberg (1890-1957)
Sunlight and Flowers
indistinctly signed, inscribed and dated 'SUNLIGHT AND FLOWERS 1949/David Bomberg' (on the canvas overlap)
oil on canvas
24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm.)
來源
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 7 June 1978, lot 94.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London 10 March 2005, lot 61.
with Richard Green, London, where purchased by the present owner, September 2005.
注意事項
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

拍品專文

The Second World War marked an extremely gruelling period for David Bomberg and his wife Lilian, whom he married in 1941. Aside from enduring life in London during the traumatic years of the Blitz, the Bombergs lived a life of perpetual anxiety, worried for their economic survival. Bomberg was finding it increasingly difficult to sell his work, let alone find employment, and had been rejected by the War Artists Committee for his request to paint a Memorial Panel based on an underground bomb store. To lift Bomberg’s spirits Lilian bought flowers from a stall outside Gloucester Road station and brought them back to their home in Queens Gate Mews for her husband to paint them. Drawn to their vivid colours and blossoming buds, Bomberg soon became immersed in the task, creating a series of works based on this theme. Created during the 1940s, these still-lifes are amongst Bomberg’s most celebrated subject matter, feted for their rich impasto and vivacious brushwork. The present lot is one of the finest examples of the flower paintings he did in this period, the scumbled treatment of the canvas surface bringing a vivacity and tactility to his work.

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