† Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882 - 1957), Portrait of Miss Edith ...

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† Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882 - 1957), Portrait of Miss Edith Evans, signed 'Wyndham Lewis' dated 1932 and titled in pen (lower right), pencil, 34 x 24cm, framed and glazed 57 x 46 cm Dame Edith Evans was a stage and screen actress most famed for her portrayal of Lady Bracknell in the 1952 film 'The Importance of Being Earnest'. This drawing is a study for another portrait of Miss Evans that Wyndham Lewis included in the portfolio of drawings 'Thirty Personalities and a Self Portrait', exhibited at the Lefevre Gallery, London in 1932. Mr and Mrs Davis Marshall, Anonymous sale, Phillips London - 21 November 2000 lot 71, The Piccadilly Gallery, Dover St, London (label verso), Anonymous sale 2002, Christie's Interiors - 16 March 2016 lot 384 Exhibited: London, Redfearn Gallery, 'Wyndham Lewis' May 1949. No.54 Literature: M. Parish, Flower of Cities - A Book of London Studies and Sketches by 22 Authors, 1949, no.54; W. Michel, Wyndham Lewis: Paintings and Drawings, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1971, p. 347. no.753