Red Portrait (Portrait of the artist's wife, Froanna)

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Maker


1882-1957

Title

Red Portrait (Portrait of the artist's wife, Froanna)

Date of Production

1937

Medium

medium : material : oil & support : material : canvas

Dimensions

Height: 91.5 cm (canvas)
Width: 61 cm (canvas)

Object Number

LP.2000.XX.1

Mode of Acquisition

Private collection, long-term loan, 21/06/2000

Credit

On long-term loan to the Courtauld Gallery, London

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

  • lampshade

Label Text

This is one of Lewis’s most accomplished and complex portraits of his wife, Gladys, who was known as Froanna. The painting creates a strange effect so that her body appears to emerge out of, and dissolve into, the surroundings - like an apparition. The other-worldly quality of the scene is heightened by the strange ‘lunar’ landscape above the mantelpiece and the predominance of the red colour scheme.

Inscriptions

Inscription: within image & lower right : signed and dated : Wyndham Lewis 1937 //

Provenance

Private collection, London.

Exhibition History

Wyndham Lewis: Life, Art, War, IWM North, Manchester, 23/06/2017-01/01/2018
Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), Fundacion Juan March & Madrid & Spain, 05/02/2010-16/05/2010
Wyndham Lewis Portraits, National Portrait Gallery & London & England, 03/07/2008-19/10/2008
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Wyndham Lewis, Rugby School & Warwickshire & England, 26/11/2007-09/12/2007
100 Works by Wyndham Lewis, Fine Art and Antiques Fair, Olympia, 01/03/2005-06/03/2005
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