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PALESTINE, CHURCH OF THE DORMITION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN, JERUSALEM

25.5 by 33cm., 10 by 13in.

oil on board

PROVENANCE

Marlborough Fine Art, London
Private Collection, U.K.

EXHIBITED

London, Marlborough Fine Art, David Bomberg 1890 - 1957, March 1964, no.6.

NOTE

Executed in 1923, this work has been authenticated by Lilian Bomberg on a label attached to the reverse.

The present work is a view that Bomberg painted and drew a number of times whilst in Jerusalem, yet, along with the Mount Zion with the Church of the Dormition: Moonlight (Coll. Ben Uri Gallery, London), it is probably amongst the most freely painted. The viewpoint has also been shifted much further back than in most of his depictions of the view, thus reducing the buildings to small eye-catching patches of colour within the overall network of walls and pathways that build up the central section of the image. Bomberg would use this same technique in the future when painting small sketches of the outskirts of towns, as for instance in Hills Beyond Toledo of 1929 (Private Collection).