Art Funded
Portrait of Naomi Mitchison
© 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)
Wyndham Lewis (1882 - 1957)
City Art Centre
1930 - 1932
She is lightly and delicately drawn. Depicted sitting, wearing a dress with cut-away sleeves with a scallop at the shoulder, held together with a gold brooch at the waist. Her hair is close to the head in tight coils. Also known as 'The Tragic Muse'.
- Medium: pencil & wash on paper
- Dimensions: 46 x 36 cm
- Art Fund Grant: £3701 ( Total: £12,613)
- ArtFunded in: 2000
- Vendor: Lyon & Turnbull
Provenance
Naomi Mitchison; writer's family since 1999.
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