David Bomberg
(1890-1957), PainterDavid Garshen Bomberg
Sitter in 5 portraits
Artist of 5 portraits
Born to Polish-Jewish immigrants and raised in the East End, Bomberg studied at Westminster School of Art (1908-10) under Walter Sickert and the Slade School of Art (1911-13) with the support of Sargent and the Jewish Educational Aid Society. In 1913, he met Picasso and Modigliani in Paris. Brancusi, Duchamp-Villon and Marinetti visited his first exhibition in London in 1914, where he made his name as a radical innovator. In his self-portraits of the 1920s and 30s, he abandoned his mechanistic style for expressive naturalism, paint and colour. His paintings Mud-Bath and In The Hold are Vorticist masterpieces. Bomberg later taught at Borough Polytechnic (1945-53). Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff were his pupils.
by David Bomberg
charcoal and wash, 1931
NPG 4821
David Bomberg ('Self-Portrait with Pipe')
by David Bomberg
oil on board, circa 1932
NPG 6653
by David Bomberg
oil on millboard, circa 1937
NPG 5345a
by David Bomberg
oil on millboard, circa 1937
NPG 5345b
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