David Bomberg, British 1890-1957 - Embrace, 1919; ink, wash and pencil on paper, 25.2 x 18.5 cm (ARR) Provenance: Sotheby's, London, 20th Century British Art, 18th March 2008, lot 125; private collection, purchased from the above Note: with thanks...

David Bomberg, British 1890-1957 - Embrace, 1919; ink, wash and pencil on paper, 25.2 x 18.5 cm (ARR) Provenance: Sotheby's, London, 20th Century British Art, 18th March 2008, lot 125; private collection, purchased from the above Note: with thanks to Agi Katz for her assistance with the cataloguing of this work David Bomberg was a member of the Whitechapel Boys and studied at the Slade School of Art under Henry Tonks, and alongside artists such as Stanley Spencer, Ben Nicholson, and Paul Nash. He was awarded the Slade Prize for drawing in 1913, after which he travelled to France, meeting contemporaries such as Pablo Picasso and Amedeo Modigliani. In 1914 he co-curated an exhibition with Jacob Epstein, in which his works were shown alongside those of Modigliano, Kisling, and other prominent Jewish artists living in France. His first solo exhibition was held at the Chenil Gallery in 1914, where visitors included Augustus John, Marinetti, Duchamp and Brancusi. Bomberg’s work has been the subject of a number of solo exhibitions, including at the Israel Museum in 1983, at the Tate in 1988, and at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1979 when under the directorship of Nicholas Serota. His works are currently held at MoMA in New York, the Art Institute in Chicago, the Tate in London and National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh. This is one of a series of drawings Bomberg made in 1919 depicting actors on a stage at the Pavilion Theatre in Whitechapel. Another of these drawings is now in the Tate Collection.