- Artist
- David Bomberg 1890–1957
- Medium
- Charcoal on paper
- Dimensions
- Frame: 744 × 857 × 30 mm
image: 548 × 654 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1967
- Reference
- T00914
Catalogue entry
David Bomberg 1890–1957
T00914 Study for ‘In the Hold’ (No. T00913) c.1913
Inscribed ‘Bomberg’ b. r.
Black chalk on paper, 21 ¿ x 26 (55.5 x 66).
Presented by the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1967.
Coll: Purchased by the Friends from the artist’s widow through Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. 1967.
Exh: Marlborough Fine Art, March 1967 (64, withdrawn during the exhibition and shown in the Arts Council Retrospective Exhibition, Tate Gallery, March–April 1967, and tour, not numbered).
Lit: Ronald Alley, ‘David Bomberg’s “In the Hold”, 1913–14’, in Burlington Magazine, CX, 1968, p. 216, repr. p. 217, pi. 74.
This drawing is both squared up and has a diagonal grid; both grids are repeated complete in the finished painting, T00913.
Published in The Tate Gallery Report 1967–1968, London 1968.
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