David BombergThe Artist's Wife and Baby 1937

T04165 The Artist's Wife and Baby 1937

Oil on canvas 766 × 562 (30 3/16 × 22 1/8)
Not inscribed
Presented by Dinora Davies-Rees, the artist's step-daughter 1986
Prov: Lilian Bomberg, the artist's widow (d.1983); bequeathed to Dinora Davies-Rees, the artist's step-daughter, and her daughter Juliet Lamont by whom presented to the Tate Gallery as the gift of Dinora Davies-Rees
Exh: David Bomberg: The Later Years, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Sept–Oct. 1979 (17)
Lit: Richard Cork, David Bomberg, 1987, pp.226–7

‘The Artist's Wife and Baby’ represents Lilian Holt, a painter who had been the artist's companion since 1928 and who later became his wife, holding their child, Diana… (read more)