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Artist: David Bomberg Author: Richard Cork Publisher: Yale Date: 1988 Condition: A good and generally very tidy copy of this volume, with the usual handling marks, a few tiny chips to the cover edges and some light tanning. Internally very clean and unmarked. Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. This is a first edition of the softback edition (the hardback was published in 1987).
A major monograph on this important British painter, written by the leading expert on his work and still considered essential reading for anyone interested in Bomberg’s painting and drawing.
From his earliest years at the Slade and in London, through the various periods painting in Jerusalem, Spain, Cyprus and back in the UK, Bomberg's fascinating but tough and often dispiriting career runs from high acclaim to almost complete neglect. Yet now his role as both exemplar and teacher is more understood, and his painting appreciated for its many qualities, it seems hard to imagine he was so 'out in the cold' at the time of his death.
The author, Richard Cork, is the key authority on Bomberg's life and work, and this very exhaustive monograph offers a great deal of information on the artist. A standard work for the shelves of any collector of British art in the first half of the c20th.
