Picos de Europe, Asturias, Spain (1935)

David Garshen Bomberg

charcoal on paper

Tate, London, Liverpool and St Ives

Classification:

Drawing and Watercolour

Materials:

Charcoal, Paper

Physical Object Description:

Watercolour and charcoal on laid paper 468 × 633 (18 1/2 × 25); watermark ‘INGRES GVA [followed by diamond device] RRO’
Inscribed ‘Bomberg 35’ bottom left.

Dimensions:

46.8 x 63.3 cm

Accession Number:

T04891

Credit:

Presented by Mrs Dinora Davies-Rees and Mrs Juliet Lamont through the Contemporary Art Society, 1987

Scheme:

Gift

Ownership history:

Gifted by Mrs Dinora Davies-Rees (1924-2009) and the artist's daughter-in-law and her daughter, Mrs Juliet Lamont to the Contemporary Art Society, 1987; presented to the Tate Gallery, 1987

Relationship:

Lilian Thirza Charlotte Holt Tate, London, Liverpool and St Ives Dinora Mendelson Davies-Rees Juliet McNeill Lamont

Subject:

Landscape, Mountain

This dramatic charcoal drawing depicts a view of the Picos de Europa mountains in Asturias in northern Spain, where David Bomberg, together with his future wife Lilian Holt, his eleven year old step-daughter Dinora and his baby daughter Diana, travelled to in July 1935. They stayed in a farmhouse around the tiny settlement of Linares for about four months, just before the Spanish Civil War broke out. It was exhibited in Bomberg: An Exhibition of Major Painting and Drawings, Fischer Fine Art, London (1988), a year after it was gifted by Mrs Dinora Davies-Rees (1924-2009) and her daughter, Mrs Juliet Lamont.

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