Racehorses

David Bomberg (1890 - 1957)

Ben Uri Gallery, The London Jewish Museum of Art

1913

This drawing from Bomberg's Vorticist period is stylistically linked to the Futurist movement in mainland Europe, which reduced imagery in a work to geometric shapes and transformed organic life into machine-like forms. This probably depicts the moment before a race begins with the horses and jockeys reduced to tubular forms.

• Medium: black chalk & wash on paper
• Dimensions: 42 x 67cm
• Art Fund Grant: £42680 ( Total: £120,680)
• ArtFunded in: 2004
• Vendor: Sotheby's

Provenance

Austen St B Harrison; Warden and Fellows of Nuffield College, Oxford by 1974; Sotheby's, 1990; private collection; Sotheby's, 2004.

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