Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957)
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Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957)

Portrait of Olivia Shakespeare

细节
Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957)
Portrait of Olivia Shakespeare
signed 'Wyndham Lewis' (lower right)
pencil and wash
15¾ x 11½ in. (40 x 29.2 cm.)
来源
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 13 November 1987, lot 317, where purchased by the present owner.
注意事项
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.

拍品专文

The present work captures the beauty and grace of Olivia Shakespear (born Olivia Tucker, 1863-1938), a British novelist, playwright and a patron of the arts. In 1909, she met Ezra Pound who later married her daughter, Dorothy Shakespear. Through Olivia Shakespear Pound was introduced to W.B. Yeats.

After first meeting Shakespear in 1894, Yeats described her as having 'a perfectly Greek regularity, though her skin was a little darker than a Greek’s would have been and her hair was very dark. She was exquisitely dressed … and had the same sensitive look of distinction I had admired in Eva Gore-Booth' (D. Donoghue (ed.), W.B. Yeats: Memoirs, London, 1974, p. 72).

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