Wyndham Lewis valuation
British painter and writer who founded Vorticism and edited the magazine BLAST.
Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957) was born, by his own account, on his father's yacht off Nova Scotia, and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London.
What a work by Wyndham Lewis is worth
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Bio
Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957) was born, by his own account, on his father's yacht off Nova Scotia, and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. After a quarrel with Roger Fry and the Omega Workshops he set up the Rebel Art Centre in 1914 and launched BLAST, the magazine of the Vorticists. He served as an artillery officer and official war artist in the First World War, painting A Battery Shelled in 1919. He was also a novelist and critic, whose books include Tarr and The Apes of God, and he made portraits of T. S. Eliot and Edith Sitwell. Tate held a major exhibition of his work in 1956.
What comes to market is drawings and watercolours, and less often paintings, along with copies of BLAST and his books. Few of his early Vorticist works survive, so any that appears is significant. A buyer will refer to Walter Michel's catalogue of his paintings and drawings. Works on paper should be checked for fading and staining, and oil paintings for cracking.
At a glance
- Born
- 18 November 1882
- Died
- 7 March 1957, London
- Movement
- Vorticism
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