Lot Essay
Walter Michel has commented of this work 'It's a most interesting example of the type of no.376, 339, 351 and 355 (see W. Michel, Wyndham Lewis Paintings and Drawings, London, 1971) and yet completely different: the only 'Spherical' nude in the bunch. No question it's a genuine Lewis and no question it's one of the finest of the 1919 nudes' (private correspondence, 29 May 1974).