David Bomberg, Ghetto Theatre, Study, c. 1920

David Bomberg 1890-1957

Ghetto Theatre, Study, c. 1920

oil and pencil on paper on board

31 x 41.5 cm

(upper left): 'Bomberg'

1987-49

Photo: Bridgeman images

In this undated Ghetto Theatre Study, both Bomberg’s handling and colour are less constrained than in the final finished oil and his subjects, consequently, appear freer and livelier as the...

Provenance

presented by Lilian Holt (the artist's widow) 1959

Literature

Sarah MacDougall ed., 'No Set Rules: A Century of Selected Works from the Schlee Collection, Southampton, and the Ben Uri Collection, London' (London: Ben Uri Gallery, 2015); Walter Schwabe and Julia Weiner, eds., Jewish Artists: the Ben Uri Collection - Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture (London: Ben Uri Art Society in association with Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 1994), p. 29.

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