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Wyndham Lewis

5 of 39 portraits by Wyndham Lewis

© Wyndham Lewis and the estate of the late Mrs G A Wyndham Lewis by kind permission of the Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust (a registered charity)

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Wyndham Lewis

by Wyndham Lewis
ink and wash, 1932
12 in. x 9 in. (304 mm x 228 mm)
Purchased, 1967
Primary Collection
NPG 4528

Sitterback to top

  • (Percy) Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), Painter and novelist. Sitter in 18 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 39 portraits.

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  • (Percy) Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), Painter and novelist. Artist or producer associated with 39 portraits, Sitter in 18 portraits.

Linked publicationsback to top

  • Bakewell, Michael, Character Sketches: Fitzrovia: London's Bohemia, 1999, p. 22
  • Edwards, Paul, Wyndham Lewis Portraits, 2008 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 3 July to 19 October 2008), p. 28
  • Rideal, Liz, Insights: Self-portraits, 2005, p. 38 Read entry

    A draughtsman, painter and author, Lewis was a volatile and charismatic artist whose collaborative publication Blast (1914) was the manifesto of his Vorticist movement. This large book, with vivid pink cover and modern graphics, was designed for maximum impact. Here he intentionally dons a slightly sinister looking expression and hat for a self-portrait to accompany a typically provocative article for the Daily Herald entitled, ‘What it feels like to be an Enemy’.

  • Rogers, Malcolm, Master Drawings from the National Portrait Gallery, 1993 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 5 August to 23 October 1994), p. 172
  • Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 380

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Current affairs

Sir Oswald Mosley forms the British Union of Fascists. Mosley's party - nicknamed the Black Shirts after their uniform - was founded along the lines of Mussolini's Fascist Party in Italy and called for the replacement of parliamentary democracy with a system of elected executives. During the war Mosley was interned and the BUF was proscribed.

Art and science

John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton 'split the atom'. In fact, Cockcroft and Walton's achievement was to change the nucleus of one element into another by bombarding it with protons, rather than to literally spit an atom apart. Nevertheless 'splitting the atom' has become the popular way of describing this important stage in the development of nuclear technology.

International

Saudi Arabia is formed by the unification of the Kingdoms of Hijaz and Nejd under King Abdul Aziz.
Iraq is granted independence from the British mandate established by the League of Nations in 1919-20.

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