Ronda, Spain

© the estate of David Bomberg. All rights reserved, DACS 2024. Image credit: Ben Uri Collection

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In February 1954, still largely ignored by the British art establishment, Bomberg and his second wife, the painter Lilian Holt, left England and returned to Ronda, where they planned to establish a painting school in the Villa Paz in the old town. After the scheme foundered, Bomberg returned to his own work producing expressive landscapes of Ronda, in both charcoal and in vigorously handled paintings drawing direct inspiration from the rugged, mountainous terrain of Spanish Andalusia. As one reviewer later noted, ‘It is an open question whether Bomberg was drawn to savage mountain country by spiritual impulse or simply because it suited his style of painting’.

Ben Uri Gallery & Museum

London

Title

Ronda, Spain

Date

c.1954–1956

Medium

charcoal on paper

Measurements

H 45.5 x W 61 cm

Accession number

2010-16

Acquisition method

accepted in lieu of inheritance tax by HM Treasury and allocated to the Ben Uri Gallery

Work type

Drawing

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