A.J.A. Symons

Details

Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957)
A.J.A. Symons
signed 'Wyndham Lewis.' (lower right)
pencil on paper
12 x 10 in. (30 x 25.5 cm.)
Executed in 1932.

Provenance

Acquired by the present owner's grandfather by 1949, and by descent.

Literature

W. Michel, Wyndham Lewis. Paintings and Drawings, London, 1971, p. 400, no. 784, pl. 101.

Exhibited

London, Redfern Gallery, Wyndham Lewis, May 1949, no. 64, dated 1939 in the catalogue.
London, Tate Gallery, Wyndham Lewis and Vorticism, July - August 1956, no. 96.

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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Lot Essay

Alphonse James Albert Symons (1900-1941) was a British author and biographer, best known for his 1934 biography, The Quest for Corvo: An experiment in biography of the eccentric English writer Frederick Rolfe (Baron Corvo).

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