Made in Britain
Made in Britain
Wyndham Lewis
Portrait of Naomi Mitchison
Lot Closed
September 23, 01:21 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Wyndham Lewis
1882 - 1957
Portrait of Naomi Mitchison
signed Wyndham Lewis. dated 1933. and inscribed Naomi Mitchison. (lower left)
pencil, watercolour and wash on paper
sheet: 36 by 26cm.; 14¼ by 10¼in.
framed: 50.5 by 39.5cm.; 19¾ by 15½in.
Executed in 1933.
We are grateful to Paul Edwards, author of Wyndham Lewis Painter and Writer (Yale University Press, 2000) and chairman of the Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust, as well as Brigid Peppin and Jo Cottrell for their kind assistance in cataloguing the present work.
Arthur Crossland (possibly)
His sale, Christie's London, 9 March 1956, lot 69
Dr. Richard Macksey, Professor of Literature, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, from whom acquired by the present owner
Walter Michel, Wyndham Lewis: Paintings and Drawings, McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1971, no. 793 (possibly)