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WYNDHAM LEWIS (1882-1957)

Lot 19
21.03.2023 18:00UTC +00:00
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ID 922568
Lot 19 | WYNDHAM LEWIS (1882-1957)
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£ 80 000 – 120 000
WYNDHAM LEWIS (1882-1957)

Dancing Figures

signed with initials and dated 'WL 1914' (upper left)

pencil, ink, crayon, gouache and oil on paper

8 x 19 3/4 in. (20.3 x 50.2 cm.)

Executed in 1914.





Provenance

with Mayor Gallery, London, 1978.

with Anthony d'Offay, London, where purchased by the present owner in July 1989.



Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Wyndham Lewis: Drawings and Watercolours 1910-1920, London, Anthony d'Offay, 1983, n.p., no. 16, illustrated.

Exhibition catalogue, The Omega Workshops: Alliance and Enmity in English Art 1911-1920, London, Anthony d'Offay, 1984, p. 17, no. 91, illustrated.

Exhibition catalogue, Wyndham Lewis: The Early Decades, New York, Washburn Gallery, 1985, n.p., exhibition not numbered, illustrated.

Exhibition catalogue, Futurismo e Futurismi, Venice, Palazzo Grassi, 1986, p. 307, exhibition not numbered, illustrated.

S. Compton, exhibition catalogue, British Art in the 20th Century: The Modern Movement, London, Royal Academy, 1987, n.p., exhibition not numbered, illustrated.

Exhibition catalogue, British Modernist Art: 1905-1930, New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1987, n.p., no. 76, illustrated.

P. Edwards, Wyndham Lewis: Painter and Writer, London, 2000, pp. 122, 123, no. 73, illustrated.

D. Fonti, exhibition catalogue, Gino Severini: The Dance 1909-1916, Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 2001, pp. 214-215, no. 39, illustrated.

Exhibition catalogue, Wyndham Lewis, Madrid, Fundación Juan March, 2010, p. 148, no. 49, illustrated.

A. Gasiorek, A History of Modernist Literature, Hoboken, 2015, illustrated on the front cover.



Exhibited

London, Anthony d'Offay, Wyndham Lewis: Drawings and Watercolours 1910-1920, April - May 1983, no. 16.

London, Anthony d'Offay, The Omega Workshops: Alliance and Enmity in English Art 1911-1920, January - March 1984, no. 91.

New York, Washburn Gallery, Wyndham Lewis: The Early Decades, September - October 1985, exhibition not numbered.

London, Anthony d'Offay, Important English Drawings Relating to Cubism and Vorticism, February - March 1986, no. 20.

Venice, Palazzo Grassi, Futurismo e Futurismi, May - October 1986, exhibition not numbered.

London, Royal Academy, British Art in the 20th Century: The Modern Movement, January - April 1987, exhibition not numbered: this exhibition travelled to Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, May - August 1987.

New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, British Modernist Art: 1905-1930, November 1987 - January 1988, no. 76.

Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Gino Severini: The Dance 1909-1916, May - October 2001, no. 39.

Madrid, Fundación Juan March, Wyndham Lewis, February - March 2010, no. 49.



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Artist:Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882 - 1957)
Applied technique:Gouache
Art style:Modern art
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