Live Auction 13731Brian Sewell - Critic & Collector
Percy Wyndham Lewis (Amherst 1882-1957 London)
Lot 195

Percy Wyndham Lewis (Amherst 1882-1957 London)

An oriental design

Closed27 September 2016

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GBP 6,250

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Percy Wyndham Lewis (Amherst 1882-1957 London)
An oriental design
signed 'P.W. Lewis.' (lower left), and indistinctly inscribed 'An Oriental design/("Salaam Maheraj.")'(lower right)
pen and brown ink, brown wash
12¾ x 15 in. (32.5 x 38 cm.)
Executed circa 1900-1905.

Specialist note

This shows Lewis' continued admiration for Rembrandt. A very rare work from the artist's early career, it also bears resemblance to certain works by Spencer Gore of the same period. Lewis and Gore stayed in Madrid for some weeks in 1902, visiting the Prado and studying the works of Goya (see exhibition catalogue, Wyndham Lewis, 1882-1957, Madrid, Fundación Juan March, 2010, p. 99).