The artist’s family;
with Fischer Fine Art, London
Exhibition History:
London, Tate Gallery, David Bomberg, February – May 1988 (illustrated, no. 151, pl. 46);
Woking, The Lightbox, The Ingram Collection: The Impact of War, 15 October 2014 – 4 January 2015;
Somerset, Hestercombe Gallery, A Personal Passion, 25 April – 5 July 2015;
Chichester, Pallant House Gallery, David Bomberg (1890-1957): A Retrospective, 21 October 2017 – 4 February 2018, then touring to Newcastle, Laing Art Gallery, 17 February – 27 May 2018;
London, Mall Galleries, The Art of Collecting, 27 June – 6 July 2018;
Sheffield, Museums Sheffield, Darkness into Light, 20 October 2018 – 13 January 2019
Literature:
R. Cork, David Bomberg, London, 1987 (illustrated, p. 244, pl. C48)
In 1942 Bomberg was commissioned by the War Artists’ Advisory Committee ‘to make a painting of an underground bomb store.’ In this study, painted on paper due to the lack of availability of canvasses, Bomberg captures the enormity and latent power of the subject – over ten thousand tons of high explosive bombs stacked in towering piles hidden deep underground in gypsum mines close to RAF Fauld at Tutbury near Burton-on-Trent.Turned down by the Committee, the finished work, a huge Memorial Panel, was never completed.
