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
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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