Yale Center for British Art

Creator:: David Bomberg, 1890–1957, British
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)
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:: © Estate of the Artist
Accession Number:: B1991.9
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)