Lot Essay
Dr Meyrick Booth (1883-active 1940s) was a British psychologist and translator. A second portrait, after Wyndham Lewis is held in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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Dr Meyrick Booth
Details
Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957)
Dr Meyrick Booth
signed 'Wyndam Lewis.' (lower right)
pencil on paper
11 ½ x 9 3/8 in. (29.2 x 23.7 cm.)
Executed in 1932.
Dr Meyrick Booth
signed 'Wyndam Lewis.' (lower right)
pencil on paper
11 ½ x 9 3/8 in. (29.2 x 23.7 cm.)
Executed in 1932.
Provenance
Acquired by the present owner's grandfather, and by descent.
Literature
W. Michel, Wyndham Lewis. Paintings and Drawings, London, 1971, p. 396, no. 736, pl. 101.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
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