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Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957)
Lot 38

Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957)

Ronald Firbank

Closed9 April 2019

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GBP 4,750

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Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957)
Ronald Firbank
signed 'Wyndham Lewis.' (lower right); inscribed 'of Ronald Firbank/Poet & Novelist.' (under the mount)
pencil on paper
12 x 10 in. (30.5 x 25.4 cm.)
Executed in 1922.

Acquired by the present owner's grandfather by 1949, and by descent.

Specialist note

Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank (1886-1926) was an English novelist. Inspired by Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetic Art Movement, Firbank wrote eccentric and witty short stories concerned with social status, sexuality and religion.