San Miguel (1929)

David Garshen Bomberg

oil on canvas

Tate, London, Liverpool and St Ives

Classification:

Painting

Materials:

Oil, Canvas

Physical Object Description:

Inscribed ‘Bomberg 29’ bottom left, on stretcher ‘No 15 St. Miguel’ (partly illegible), on a canvas label ‘No 15 San Miguel - Toledo: Morning. David Bomberg Toledo 1929’ and a paper label ‘San Justo and Toledo Hills - Spain. 1929. Price £25. David Bomberg, 17 Greville Place, St. Johns Wood, NW6’

Dimensions:

33.3 x 43.8 cm

Accession Number:

T03264

Credit:

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

Scheme:

Gift

Ownership history:

Gifted to the Contemporary Art Society, in memory of the artist, by Mr and Mrs J. Newmark, the artist's sister, 1981; presented to the Tate Gallery, 1981

Relationship:

Tate, London, Liverpool and St Ives Mr and Mrs James Newmark Kitty Bomberg Newmark

Subject:

Townscape

Although this picture has a label on the back inscribed ‘San Justo and Toledo Hills’, and was given by the artist’s sister, Kitty Bomberg, Mrs J. Newmark to the Tate, through the Contemporary Art Society, under this title, the church is undoubtedly the Convent of San Miguel. It was painted during David Bomberg's first visit to Spain in 1929. He left London in August and returned in April 1930, having also visited Morocco and the Greek islands after Spain. Paintings from this tour were exhibited at the Bloomsbury Gallery in November 1932, the catalogue listing twelve works from Spain, all of them landscape subjects in Toledo. San Miguel was not included as it had already been given to his sister in 1931.

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