$6,300
Estimate: $7,000 - $10,000
Auction: July 18, 2023 1:00 PM EDT
Titled verso, black chalk on paper
Sheet size: 15 x 11 in. (38.1 x 27.9cm)
Executed circa 1943.
Provenance
Reid and Lefevre, London, United Kingdom.
Private Collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, since 1964.
Exhibited
"British Drawings Canada," British Council – Fine Arts Department, London, United Kingdom, 1948.
Literature
Catharine M. Mastin et al., The Talented Intruder: Wyndham Lewis in Canada, 1939-1945, an exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, 1992, p. 70, fig. 29 (illustrated as Head from a Casting Shop).
"Lost Lewis Drawing Rediscovered in the USA" in Lewisletter 25, Winter/Spring 2007.
Note
The present work was authenticated by Alan Munton upon its rediscovery in 2007.