Sidney Schiff (Stephen Hudson)

Details

Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957)
Sidney Schiff (Stephen Hudson)
signed 'Wyndham Lewis.' (lower left)
pencil and wash on paper
12 ½ x 10 ½ in. (31.7 x 26.6 cm.)
Executed in 1922.

Provenance

Acquired by the present owner's grandfather by 1949, and by descent.

Literature

W. Michel, Wyndham Lewis. Paintings and Drawings, London, 1971, p. 385, no. 567, pl. 59.

Exhibited

London, Redfern Gallery, Wyndham Lewis, May 1949, no. 61.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

Sidney Schiff (1868-1944) was a British novelist and translator, writing under the pseudonym Stephen Hudson in the early 1900s. He is known for being a patron of the arts and literature in England and France, and funded Wyndham Lewis’ 1920s Tyro paintings. Lewis depicted Schiff as the character Lionel Kein in his 1930s novel The Apes of God, which satirised London's contemporary literary and artistic scenes.

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