Graphite and watercolour on paper
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Sleeping Men
Purchased 1923
actions: processes and functions
adults
Bible: Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 12
group
groups
man
people
religion and belief
sleeping
paper unique graphite watercolour
1 June 2006 – 31 August 2006
2006-08-31
17 July 2006 – 28 October 2006
2006-10-28
2006-07-17
Abbot Hall Art Gallery (Kendal, UK)
http://www.abbothall.org.uk
2006-06-01
David Bomberg
Loan-out
Sleeping Men
support: 222 × 902 mm
Purchased 1923
<p><b>N03722</b>	SLEEPING MEN 1911
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Bomberg 1911’ b.r.
<br/>Watercolour, 8 1/4×35 1/4 (22×90).
<br/>Purchased from the artist (Duveen Drawings Fund) 1923.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Arts Council, September–October 1958 and provincial tour (50).</p>
<p>The <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a> was made for the Slade Sketch Club in 1911 when the subject set was a quotation from the Book of Ecclesiastes, xii. 5: ‘Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.’</p>
<p>A sketch done by Stanley Spencer on the same occasion is also in the Tate Gallery, <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/spencer-man-goeth-to-his-long-home-n05608" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05608</span></a>.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I</p>
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2004-10-05T00:00:00
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actions: processes and functions adults Bible: Old Testament Ecclesiastes 12 group groups man people religion and belief sleeping