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Raie, the Artist’s Sister (circa 1910)

David Garshen Bomberg

chalk on paper

Tate, London, Liverpool and St Ives

Raie, the Artist’s Sister (circa 1910)

Details

Classification:

Drawing and Watercolour

Materials:

Chalk, Paper

Dimensions:

61 x 47.6 cm

Accession Number:

T03260

Credit:

Presented in memory of the artist by Mr and Mrs J. Newmark through the Contemporary Art Society 1981

Scheme:

Gift

Ownership history:

Lilian Holt Bomberg (1898-1983) ; gifted in memory of the artist, by Mr and Mrs J. Newmark, the artist's sister, to the Contemporary Art Society, 1981; presented to the Tate Gallery, 1981

Subject:

Portraits

David Bomberg’s younger sister Raie was born in 1897 and died in about 1921. Kitty, Mrs J. Newmark (1902-2004), the youngest sister, believed it was drawn while the artist was still living in the family home in St Mark's Street, Whitechapel, which he left in late 1912 or early 1913.

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