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Dimensions: 61 by 51cm., 24 by 20in.
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Notes: In the early 40s, as it became progressively clearer that Bomberg's work for the WAAC would not lead to any further official commissions, he began to slip into bouts of depression and allow his painting to lapse. As a remedy to this, Lilian began in 1943 to buy bunches of flowers which she suggested that he might paint.
Once his enthusiasm for the subject grew, he adopted a characteristic way of working, not attempting to arrange the flowers in any way or enhance their presentation but instead attacking the subject with a directness and vigour of handling quite unlike that of his contemporaries, except perhaps the rather more restrained flower pieces of Ivon Hitchens.
