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WYNDHAM LEWIS (1882-1957)
Lot 124RADICAL ART: AN IMPORTANT VORTICIST COLLECTION

WYNDHAM LEWIS (1882-1957)

Iris Barry Seated

Fermé22 March 2023

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GBP 21,420

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WYNDHAM LEWIS (1882-1957)
Iris Barry Seated
signed and dated 'Wyndham Lewis 1921.' (lower right)
ink and watercolour on paper
12 1/2 x 13 1/8 in. (31.8 x 33.3 cm.)
Executed in 1921.

with James Graham & Son, New York, 1973.
with Anthony d'Offay, London, where purchased by the present owner in September 1988.

Note du spécialiste

Iris Barry (1895-1969) was a writer and film critic who helped establish the original London Film Society, and was the first curator of the film department of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Barry lived with Wyndham Lewis from 1918-21 and they had two children together. Lewis bought the dress that Barry wears in this drawing of her. He produced several drawings of her wearing it, culminating in the large painting Praxitella, 1921 (Leeds, City Art Gallery).

We are very grateful to Paul Edwards for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.