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DAVID BOMBERG (1890-1957)
Portrait of Lilian (recto); Self-Portrait (verso)
signed and dated 'Bomberg 37' (lower right)
oil on board
24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm.)
Painted in 1937.
Provenance
Lilian Bomberg.
with L.A. Louver, Venice, California, where purchased by the present owner in April 1986.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, David Bomberg An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, Newcastle upon Tyne, Arts Council of Great Britain, Laing Art Gallery, 1958, n.p., no. 35, pl. 8.
W. Lipke, David Bomberg A Critical Study of His Life and Work, London, 1967, p. 72, fig. 29.
Exhibition catalogue, David Bomberg A Tribute to Lilian Bomberg, London, Fischer Fine Art, 1985, pp. 38-39, no. 66, illustrated.
R. Cork, David Bomberg New Haven and London, 1987, p. 227, pl. 286.
R. Cork, exhibition catalogue, David Bomberg London, Tate Gallery, 1988, p. 160, no. 134, illustrated.
Exhibited
Newcastle upon Tyne, Arts Council of Great Britain, Laing Art Gallery, David Bomberg An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, May - June 1958, no. 35: this exhibition travelled to Swansea, Glyn Vivian Art Gallery, June - July 1958; Middlesbrough, Art Gallery, July - August 1958; London, Arts Council Gallery, September - October 1958; and Bradford, Cartwright Memorial Hall, October - November 1958.
Reading, Museum and Art Gallery, David Bomberg and Lilian Holt June - July 1971, no. 68.
London, Whitechapel Gallery, David Bomberg The Later Years, September - October 1979, no. 19.
London, Fischer Fine Art, David Bomberg A Tribute to Lilian Bomberg, March - April 1985, no. 66.
London, Tate Gallery, David Bomberg February - May 1988, no. 134: this exhibition travelled to Seville, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, June - July 1988; and New Haven, Yale Centre for British Art, September - October 1988.
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