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David Bomberg, 1890–1957, British, Study for the South East Corner, Jerusalem, 1923
- Title:
- Study for the South East Corner, Jerusalem
- Date:
- 1923
- Materials & Techniques:
- Black chalk and white chalk on thin, slightly textured, brown modern laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 19 × 24 7/8 inches (48.3 × 63.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, lower left: "4"; in blue ink, lower right: "Drawing for painting of Jerusalem. 1923 by David Bomberg. Authd. by Lilian Bomberg"
Watermark: Canson & Montgolfier
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- © Estate of the Artist
- Accession Number:
- B1991.9
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- cityscape | corner | landscape
- Associated Places:
- Ad Daffah al Gharbiyah | Asia | Israel | Jerusalem | Jerusalem | Jerusalem | Yisra'el
- Access:
- Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:3337
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The city of Jerusalem, with its "flat roofs, vaults, domes, street arches, abutments and buttresses," held a special fascination for Bomberg. This stark, preliminary charcoal drawing echoes the radically simplified formal language of the near-abstract art he had been committed to making before the catastrophic intervention of the First World War. Gallery label for Lure of the East - British Orientalist Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-02-07 - 2008-04-28)
The lure of the east : British Orientalist painting: wall labels, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2008, p. [95], V 2577 (YCBA) V 2577 [YCBA]
The lure of the East, British orientalist painting, 1830-1925 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2008, p. 17, V 1879 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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