The Cart
Draughtsman: Bomberg, David
History note: D'Offay Couper Gallery, from whom bought (£135)
Height: 201 mm
Width: 265 mm
Method of acquisition: Given (1971) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Production date: AD 1919
This drawing is one of a series of pen and wash drawings done in that year, "in twelve parts, each part having twelve variations, each drawing based on one of twelve patterns the key to the whole. Each drawing had to be different ... one might be groups of fishermen and nets, the other Ballet scenes or dancers. The problem: to expand the possibilities of one combination of forms into as many variations to exhaustion of possibilities without altering the juxtapositions, but slightly modifying and stressing the parts of the key. This was to prove that form plays one part, content another. Both can operate within one another, but (remain) basically unrelated" (quoted by Lipke, 'David Bomberg', 1967, p. 48)
Support composed of tissue paper
Drawing : Pen, brush and Indian ink on both sides of tissue paper, stuck down at the corners
Accession number: PD.41-1971
Primary reference Number: 8915
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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