λ PERCY WYNDHAM LEWIS (BRITISH 1882-1957) STUDY OF SACHEVERELL SITWELL Pencil Signed, titled, dated 1922 and inscribed Venice (mid-right) 37 x 27cm (14½ x 10½ in.) Provenance: Drawn by the artist for Sir Sacheverell Sitwell 6th. Bt. (1897-1988) in 1922 on a holiday to Venice. Literature: J. Pearson Facades: Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell SItwell, (Macmillan, 1978), p177 Exhibited: London, National Portrait Gallery, The Sitwells, October 1994 - January 1995, cat. no. F0/6.1 Catalogue Note: Artist, critic and writer, Percy Wyndham Lewis was a key figure in the intellectual and cultural life of the early twentieth century. He is perhaps best known as the founder of 'Vorticism', a term coined by his friend and poet, Ezra Pound. The style developed out of Lewis's admiration of two other important movements in art - Cubism and Futurism. Although cut short by the outbreak of World War I, the Vorticist movement was a defining moment in English abstract art and brought together such artists as William Roberts Edward Wadsworth and Henri Gaudier Brzeska. In her book Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions, Victoria Glendinning cites Edith remarking that Lewis "spent a very large part of his time with my brothers and me in the years 1921, 1922 and 1923, indeed, during this time he rarely absented himself from us for more than a few days." (p. 83). During this period, Lewis produced numerous drawings and paintings of the Sitwells. However, their relationship soured when Lewis did not get the financial support from the Sitwells which he felt he deserved. He went on to portray them unfavourably in his satirical book on the London literary scene The Apes of God (1930). The present drawing was executed in 1922 whilst on holiday with the Osbert and Sacheverell in Venice.
λ PERCY WYNDHAM LEWIS (BRITISH 1882-1957) STUDY OF SACHEVERELL SITWELL Pencil Signed, titled, dated 1922 and inscribed Venice (mid-right) 37 x 27cm (14½ x 10½ in.) Provenance: Drawn by the artist for Sir Sacheverell Sitwell 6th. Bt. (1897-1988) in 1922 on a holiday to Venice. Literature: J. Pearson Facades: Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell SItwell, (Macmillan, 1978), p177 Exhibited: London, National Portrait Gallery, The Sitwells, October 1994 - January 1995, cat. no. F0/6.1 Catalogue Note: Artist, critic and writer, Percy Wyndham Lewis was a key figure in the intellectual and cultural life of the early twentieth century. He is perhaps best known as the founder of 'Vorticism', a term coined by his friend and poet, Ezra Pound. The style developed out of Lewis's admiration of two other important movements in art - Cubism and Futurism. Although cut short by the outbreak of World War I, the Vorticist movement was a defining moment in English abstract art and brought together such artists as William Roberts Edward Wadsworth and Henri Gaudier Brzeska. In her book Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions, Victoria Glendinning cites Edith remarking that Lewis "spent a very large part of his time with my brothers and me in the years 1921, 1922 and 1923, indeed, during this time he rarely absented himself from us for more than a few days." (p. 83). During this period, Lewis produced numerous drawings and paintings of the Sitwells. However, their relationship soured when Lewis did not get the financial support from the Sitwells which he felt he deserved. He went on to portray them unfavourably in his satirical book on the London literary scene The Apes of God (1930). The present drawing was executed in 1922 whilst on holiday with the Osbert and Sacheverell in Venice.
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