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Artist or Maker: David Bomberg (1890-1957)

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Description: Self-Portrait in Profile
oil on board
14 3/4 x 12 1/2 in. (37.4 x 31.7 cm.)
Painted circa 1920.

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Provenance: The artist's widow.
Roberto Shorto, by whom purchased at the 1981 exhibition.
with Fischer Fine Art, London, where purchased by the present owner, January 1992.

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Exhibited: London, Anthony d'Offay, David Bomberg 1890-1957: Works from the Collection of Lilian Bomberg, February - April 1981, no. 25.
London, Fischer Fine Art, David Bomberg A Tribute to Lilian Bomberg, March - April 1985.
London, Fischer Fine Art, Bomberg: An Exhibition of Major Paintings and Drawings, March - April 1988, no. 4.

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Published: Exhibition catalogue, David Bomberg 1890-1957: Works from the collection of Lilian Bomberg, London, Anthony D'Offay, 1981, no. 25, illustrated.
R. Cork, David Bomberg, New Haven and London, 1987, pp. 131-2, pl. 169.
Exhibition catalogue, Bomberg: An Exhibition of Major Paintings and Drawings, London, Fischer Fine Art, 1988, p. 15, illustrated.

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Notes: Richard Cork comments, 'The war had brought about a profound change in Bomberg's vision of the world, and the two small self-portraits he executed around this time investigate the possibilities of a surprisingly naturalistic idiom (pls. 168-9). One of them [the present work], a stern profile view posed like a police photograph, suggests that his features had lost little of the jutting belligerence and determination which characterized the young Bomberg' (op. cit., p. 132).

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