Racehorses
1913
45.0 x 61.0 cm
Ben Uri Gallery and Museum
In May 1914, David Bomberg exhibited this extraordinary chalk-and-wash drawing among his five exhibits in the ‘Jewish Section’ of the Whitechapel Art Gallery’s exhibition Twentieth Century Art: A Review of Modern Movements, which he co-curated with Jacob Epstein. Simultaneously, his friend John Rodker (a racing enthusiast) reproduced it as a frontispiece in The Dial Monthly, explaining that it was set in a paddock at a race meeting, that the two figures on the front right of the composition were bookies, those to their left spectators, and that the style was ‘cubist’.
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About this artwork
- Title: Racehorses
- Artist: David Bomberg
- Year: 1913
- Original dimensions: 45.0 x 61.0 cm
- Format: Landscape
- Copyright status: Under copyright
- Where to see it: Ben Uri Gallery and Museum
- Color palette: Earthy
- Color hue: Green Spectrum
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