David BombergBarges 1919

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Artwork details

Artist
David Bomberg (1890‑1957)
Title
Barges
Date 1919
MediumOil paint on canvas
Dimensionssupport: 597 x 775 mm frame: 760 x 945 x 77 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition Purchased 1963
Reference
T00610
Not on display

Catalogue entry

T00610 BARGES 1919
 
Inscr. ‘Bomberg 19’ b.r.
Canvas, 23 7/8×30 1/2 (59·5×77·5).
Purchased from the Piccadilly Gallery (Grant-in-Aid) 1963.
Coll: J. L. Behrend, purchased at the London Group, 1919; given to his daughter, Mrs E. Brook-Jones, 1941; sold Christie's, 10 March 1961 (96), as the property of J. L. Behrend, bought Piccadilly Gallery.
Exh: London Group, November 1919 (31); Arts Council, September–October 1958, and provincial tour (2), as ‘Barges on the Canal’; Summer Exhibition, Redfern Gallery, June–September 1963 (32); Paintings of Inland Waterways, Piccadilly Gallery, August–September 1963 (I), as ‘Moored Barges’, wrongly dated 1921.

A sketch for T00610 was exhibited at the London Group in 1919 (74) and a gouache version dated 1921 was in the Piccadilly Gallery exhibition, 1963 (2)… (read more)

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