Alice: Design for Cameo Corner, David Bomberg

David Bomberg
1890 - 1957
Alice: Design for Cameo Corner

ink wash, pen and ink on paper
sheet: 26.5 by 220.5cm.; 10½ by 8in.
framed: 52 by 42.5cm.; 20½ by 16¾in.
Executed in 1919.
We are grateful to Richard Cork for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.

Condition Report:
The sheet is sound, not laid down and attached to the mount in two places along the top edge verso. Watermarks visible to the sheet. The work is in generally very good overall condition.

There is a tiny tear measuring approximately 1 cm to the upper edge. There is time staining to the sheet, spots of staining particularly to the edges and near the figure's hands and head. There is light creasing and cockling to the sheet. Handling marks and a few specks of foxing.

Held under glass in a gilt wood frame. Floated on a cream mount.

Please contact Bryn Sayles on bryn.sayles@sothebys.com if you have any questions regarding the present work.