Figure Composition

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Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957)
Figure Composition
signed ‘Wyndham Lewis.’ (lower left)
pencil, charcoal, ink, watercolour, gouache and collage on paper
14 x 18 in. (35.5 x 45.8 cm.)
Executed in 1921.

来源

Mrs Olivia Shakespear.
Mrs Dorothy Pound, by 1938.
with Anthony d'Offay, London, where purchased by the present owner in the early 1980s.

出版

W. Michel, Wyndham Lewis Paintings and Drawings, London, 1971, p. 376, no. 456, pl. 79.
S. Cooney (ed.), Blast 3, Los Angeles, 1984, n.p., pl. 6.
P. Edwards, Wyndham Lewis: Painter and Writer, London, 2000, pp. 273-274, fig. 180.

展览

Manchester, City Art Gallery, Wyndham Lewis, October - November 1980, no. 86.
London, Anthony d’Offay, Wyndham Lewis: The Twenties, September - October 1984, no. 12.
Woollahra, Australia, David Cook Art in collaboration with Richard Nagy, London, Modern British Art of the 20th Century, August - September 1988.

注意事项

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Albany Bell

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拍品专文

Wyndham Lewis produced a series of abstract designs in 1921-22, consolidating the modernist visual revolution that he felt had become bogged down in ‘classicism’ and (in England) imitative dilettantism. Five cubist figures or totems, each an inventive variation of its fellows, stand (or float like ghosts) in an ambiguous space that seems at one moment flat, at another a stage framed by a proscenium. Lewis wrote in the introduction to his Tate Gallery Retrospective in 1956, 'I had at all times the desire to project a race of visually logical beings ... If I had given them a name it would probably have been monads'. In the early twenties he argued that visual art could take on some of the function traditionally performed by philosophy; Figure Composition asks questions about existence, but does so in a purely visual form. It also shows Lewis as one of the most advanced painters in Europe.

We are very grateful to Professor Paul Edwards for preparing this catalogue entry.

Figure Composition

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