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Protraction
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WYNDHAM LEWIS (1882-1957)
Protraction
signed and dated 'Wyndham Lewis 1913' (lower right)
pencil, watercolour, gouache and crayon on paper
5 7/8 x 12 1/4 in. (14.9 x 31.2 cm.)
Executed in 1913.
Protraction
signed and dated 'Wyndham Lewis 1913' (lower right)
pencil, watercolour, gouache and crayon on paper
5 7/8 x 12 1/4 in. (14.9 x 31.2 cm.)
Executed in 1913.
Provenance
John Quinn, by 16 August 1916.
His sale; American Art Association, New York, 11 February 1927, lot 423c, where purchased by J.M. Kerrigan.
Richard Wyndham.
Lee Miller.
Sir Roland Penrose, and by descent to Anthony Penrose.
with Spink & Son, London, by 1996.
with Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, London, where purchased by the present owner in July 2004.
His sale; American Art Association, New York, 11 February 1927, lot 423c, where purchased by J.M. Kerrigan.
Richard Wyndham.
Lee Miller.
Sir Roland Penrose, and by descent to Anthony Penrose.
with Spink & Son, London, by 1996.
with Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, London, where purchased by the present owner in July 2004.
Literature
W. Michel, Wyndham Lewis: Paintings and Drawings, London, 1971, p. 358, no. 151.
Exhibition catalogue, BLAST: Vorticism - The First Avant-Garde in England 1914-1918, Hannover, Sprengel Museum, 1996, pp. 134, 314, no. 130, illustrated.
P. Edwards, Wyndham Lewis: Painter and Writer, London, 2000, pp. 122, 123, no. 72, illustrated.
M. Antliff and V. Greene (eds.), exhibition catalogue, The Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World, Durham, The Nasher Museum of Art, 2010, pp. 156, 188, no. 61, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, BLAST: Vorticism - The First Avant-Garde in England 1914-1918, Hannover, Sprengel Museum, 1996, pp. 134, 314, no. 130, illustrated.
P. Edwards, Wyndham Lewis: Painter and Writer, London, 2000, pp. 122, 123, no. 72, illustrated.
M. Antliff and V. Greene (eds.), exhibition catalogue, The Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World, Durham, The Nasher Museum of Art, 2010, pp. 156, 188, no. 61, illustrated.
Exhibited
New York, Penguin Club, The Vorticists, January 1917, no. 39.
Hannover, Sprengel Museum, BLAST: Vorticism - The First Avant-Garde in England 1914-1918, August - November 1996, no. 130: this exhibition travelled to Munich, Haus Der Kunst, November 1996 - January 1997.
Durham, The Nasher Museum of Art, The Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World, September 2010 - January 2011, no. 22: this exhibition travelled to Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, January - May 2011; and London, Tate Britain, June - September 2011.
Hannover, Sprengel Museum, BLAST: Vorticism - The First Avant-Garde in England 1914-1918, August - November 1996, no. 130: this exhibition travelled to Munich, Haus Der Kunst, November 1996 - January 1997.
Durham, The Nasher Museum of Art, The Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World, September 2010 - January 2011, no. 22: this exhibition travelled to Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, January - May 2011; and London, Tate Britain, June - September 2011.
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