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Racehorses
Artist: David Bomberg (1890 - 1957)
Location: Ben Uri Gallery, The London Jewish Museum of Art
Date: 1913
Materials: black chalk & wash on paper
Dimensions: 42 x 67cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £42,680 (Total: £120,680)
Vendor: Sotheby's
Review number: 5406 (2004)
Provenance:
Austen St B Harrison; Warden and Fellows of Nuffield College, Oxford by 1974; Sotheby's, 1990; private collection; Sotheby's, 2004.
Description:
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.
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