Lot 141
- 141
Percy Wyndham Lewis
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description
- Percy Wyndham Lewis
- Abstract Figure Study
- signed and dated 1921.
- pen and ink, watercolour and wash
- 38 by 32.5cm.; 15 by 12¾in.
Provenance
Anne Wyndham Lewis
Zwemmer Gallery, London (as Nude No.3)
The Reid Gallery
Nicholas Guppy
Sale, Christie's London, 9th March 1984, lot 50
David Bathurst
Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London, where acquired by the present owners in 1990
Zwemmer Gallery, London (as Nude No.3)
The Reid Gallery
Nicholas Guppy
Sale, Christie's London, 9th March 1984, lot 50
David Bathurst
Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London, where acquired by the present owners in 1990
Exhibited
Manchester, City Art Gallery, Wyndham Lewis, 1st October - 15th November 1980, cat. no.85, illustrated, with tour to National Museum of Wales, and City Art Centre, Edinburgh;
London, Anthony d'Offay, Wyndham Lewis: The Twenties, 12th September - 12th October 1984, cat. no.10, illustrated;
London, Austin/Desmond Fine Art, Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), 1990, cat. no.18;
London, Fine Art, Design & Antiques Fair Olympia, Wyndham Lewis, 1st - 6th March 2005, cat. no.WL-062;
Madrid, Fundacion Juan March, Wyndham Lewis, 5th February - 16🍒th May 2010, cat. no.109𒈔, illustrated p.204.
Literature
Apollo, August 1965, illustrated fig.4;
Walter Michel, Wyndham Lewis: Paintings and Drawings, Thames and Hudson, London, 1971, cat. no.445, illustrated pl.78;
Paul Edwards, Wyndham Lewis: Painter and Writer, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2000, p.275-7, illustrated fig.183.
Walter Michel, Wyndham Lewis: Paintings and Drawings, Thames and Hudson, London, 1971, cat. no.445, illustrated pl.78;
Paul Edwards, Wyndham Lewis: Painter and Writer, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2000, p.275-7, illustrated fig.183.
Condition
The sheet is sound and not laid down, but is adhered to the backing with adhesive tape in the upper corners. There are artist's pinholes in the corners. The edges are slightly uneven.
The edges of the sheet are slightly discoloured and the colours may be very slightly faded. There is a tiny speck of foxing in the background upper right. Generally the work is in good overall condition, clean and ready to hang.
Held under glass in a metallic painted wood frame with a cream mount.
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