Major Paintings
Lewis: selection of key works of art
Key to abbreviations:
M: Michel, Walter. Wyndham Lewis, Paintings and Drawings (London: Thames and Hudson, 1971).
PE: Edwards, Paul. Wyndham Lewis: Painter and Writer (New Haven and London: Yale, 2000).
The Celibate, 1909, pen and ink, gouache, 37.5 x 28.5 cm, Private Collection. (not listed in M, appears in PE p.30.)
Café, 1910, watercolour, pen and ink, wash, charcoal and coloured chalk, 21.6 x 14 cm, Private Collection. (M18)
Self Portrait, 1911, graphite and watercolour on paper, 31.3 x 24.3 cm, The Courtauld, London. (M26)
Courtship, 1912, pen, ink and chalk, 25.8 x 20.5 cm, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. (M45)
Smiling Woman Ascending a Stair, 1912, charcoal, gouache, 95 x 65 cm, Private Collection. (M27)
Abstract Design, 1912, ink, watercolour and collage on paper, 24.3 x 39 cm, British Council, London. (M29)
Lovers, 1912, pen and ink, watercolour. 2.5 x 35.5 cm, Private Collection (M74)
A Masque of Timon, 1912. Pen, black ink, watercolour and bodycolour, 48.3 x 30.5 cm, Private Collection. (M93)
Timon, 1912, appears in Timon of Athens Portfolio, Private Collection. Reproduced in PE p. 88. (M99)
Drawing for Timon, 1912, pen and ink, watercolour, 38 x 28.5 cm. Private Collection. (M109)
A Feast of Overmen, 1912, appears in Timon of Athens Portfolio, Private Collection. Reproduced in PE p. 90. (M100)
The Thébaide, 1912, appears in Timon of Athens Portfolio, Private Collection. Reproduced in PE p. 91 (M98)
Figure Composition, 1912, pen and ink, watercolour, gouache, 30.5 x 21 cm. Private Collection. (M62)
Sunset among the Michelangelos, 1912, ink and gouache on paper, 32.3 x 47.8 cm, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (M88)
Two Mechanics, 1912, pen and ink, wash 56 x 33.5 cm, Tate Gallery, London (M114)
Study in Blue, 1912, pen, brush, black ink, watercolour, 25.4 x 20.3 cm, Monsoon Art Collection, London (M82)
Study for Kermesse, 1912, pen and ink, wash, gouache, 35 x 35.1 cm, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven.( M72)
The Dancers, 1912, pen and ink, watercolour, 30.1 x 29.2 cm, Manchester Art Gallery. (M48)
At the Seaside, 1913, pen and ink, watercolour, 47.5 x 31.5 cm, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. (M123)
Protraction, 1913, pencil, crayon, watercolour, 15.5 x 30.5, Private Collection (M151)
Plan of War, 1913, oil on canvas, 255 x 143 cm. Whereabouts unknown. (M P12)
Composition, 1913, ink, warercolour and graphite on paper, 34.3 x 26.7 cm, Tate Gallery, London (M125)
Portrait of an Englishwoman, 1913, pen and ink, watercolour, 56 x 38 cm. The Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut. (M 146)
Planners (A Happy Day), 1913, pencil, pen and ink, gouache, 31 x 38 cm (M145)
The Enemy of the Stars, 1913, pen and ink, wash, 44 x 20 cm (M143)
Abstract Composition III, 1914-15, pencil, watercolour, 29 x 26 cm, private collection (M 180)
New York, 1914, pen and ink, watercolour 31 x 26 cm, private collection (M77)
Red Duet, 1914, black and coloured chalks, gouache, 38.5 x 56 cm, Ivor Braka Ltd, London (M170)
The Crowd, 1914-15, oil and graphite on canvas, 20 x 15.4 cm, Tate Gallery, London (MP17)
Workshop, 1915, oil on canvas, 76.5 x 61 cm, Tate Gallery, London (MP19) Composition in Blue, 1915, chalk and watercolour, 47 x 30.5 cm, Private Collection (M196)
Design for Red Duet, 1915, pencil, pen and ink, watercolour and gouache, 31.5 x 25 cm, private collection (M204)
A Battery Shelled, 1919, oil on canvas 182.7 x 317.7 cm, Imperial War Museum, London (M P25)
Mr Wyndham Lewis as a Tyro, 1920-1, oil on canvas, 73.5 x 44 cm, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull City Museums and Art Galleries (M P27).
Praxitella, 1920-1, oil on canvas, 142 x 101.5 cm, Leeds Museums and Galleries (City Art Gallery) (M P30).
A Reading of Ovid (Tyros), 1921, oil on canvas, 165 x 89 cm, Scottish Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (M P31).
Portrait of the Artist as the Painter Raphael, 1921, oil on canvas, 76.3 x 68.6 cm, Manchester City Art Galleries (M P28).
Bagdad, 1927, oil on plywood, 183 x 79 cm, Tate Gallery, London (M P38).
Femme surréaliste, 1929, oil on plywood, 70 x 50 cm, Private Collection (M P41).
Miss Rebecca West, 1932, black chalk on paper, 33 x 25 cm, National Portrait Gallery, London (M 786).
Self-Portrait, 1932, pencil on paper, 33 x 25.5 cm, The Ingram Collection (M781).
Inferno, 1937, oil on canvas, 152.5 x 101.8 cm, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
Froanna – Portrait of the Artist’s Wife, 1937, oil on canvas, 76 x 63.5 cm, Glasgow Museums: Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove (M P71).
Portrait of T. S. Eliot, 1938, oil on canvas, 132 x 85 cm, Municipal Art Gallery, Durban (M P80).
Ezra Pound, 1939, oil on canvas, 76 x 102 cm, Tate Gallery, London (M P99).