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"
Jerusalem | Jerusalem | Jerusalem | Ad Daffah al Gharbiyah | Asia | Israel | Yisra'el
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
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 2577The lure of the East, British orientalist painting, 1830-1925 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2008, p. 17, V 1879 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
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)