Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957)
Lot 133

Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957)

John Rodker

Closed9 April 2019

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GBP 7,500

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Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957)
John Rodker
signed and dated 'Wyndham Lewis 1923.' (lower right)
pencil and wash on paper
12 ¾ x 11 5/8 in. (32.2 x 29.6 cm.)
Executed in 1923.

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

Specialist note

John Rodker (1894-1955) was an English writer, poet and publisher. He was a member of the ‘Whitechapel Boys’, a group of Anglo-Jewish writers and artists of the early 20th century including Isaac Rosenberg, Mark Gertler, and David Bomberg. Rodker became foreign editor of the New York magazine, The Little Review in 1919 and founded Ovid Press, publishing books by T.S. Eliot and drawings by Wyndham Lewis. He later published editions of James Joyce’s Ulysses and works by Sigmund Freud.