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Benchers Hall, Inner Temple

David Bomberg (1890–1957)

Ben Uri Gallery & Museum

Benchers Hall, Inner Temple

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David Bomberg once observed that ‘There is no fixed way in which a line goes, but there is a relationship between the lines’. This is one of a series of drawings of the Inns of Court that he completed in the mid-to-late 1940s at the start of his highly influential teaching career. Towards the end of the war, he had taken over a post as drawing master at the Bartlett School of Architecture, followed by an appointment at the Borough Polytechnic between 1945 and 1953.

Here he uses strong, fluid charcoal strokes to trace the outline of the building to evoke a sense of mass – a concept that was central both to his own work and his teaching.

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Title

Benchers Hall, Inner Temple

Date

1947

Medium

charcoal on paper

Measurements

H 47 x W 60 cm

Accession number

2015-02

Acquisition method

presented from private collection, 2015

Work type

Drawing

Signature/marks description

Signed (lower left): 'Bomberg 47'

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David Bomberg

1890–1957

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