Modern British & 20th Century Art - 29th November 2017

Lot 19

‡Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) Portrait of Sir David Low Signed

Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £2600

+ Buyers Premium

Description

‡Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957)

Portrait of Sir David Low

Signed, titled and dated 1932

Pencil

27 x 19cm

Provenance:

Private collection from 1957

Christie's, 7th March 1997, Lot no. 18

Lots 12-52 A Deceased Estate

Sir David Low (1891-1963) was a Cartoonist and caricaturist, born in New Zealand, he worked there and then in Australia before moving to the UK. He is noted for creating Colonel Blimp and satirising political figures including Hitler and Stalin