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Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957)
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Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957)

The Artist's Wife

Details
Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957)
The Artist's Wife
signed and dated 'Wyndham Lewis/1940' (lower right)
pencil and coloured chalks on blue paper
19 x 12¼ in. (48.3 x 31 cm.)
Provenance
with Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd., London.
Benjamin Sonnenberg.
Literature
W. Michel, Wyndham Lewis Paintings and Drawings, London, 1971, pl. 139, no. 958, illustrated.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

This drawing shows Gladys Anne, who was nicknamed Froanna. In a letter to Mrs John Rothenstein in December 1939, Lewis describes her as 'a very good sort ... she has ridden all over the Atlas on a mule and is a great reader of my books: but you can see she is a wife in a thousand' (see The letters of Wyndham Lewis, Bristol, 1962, p. 269).

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