Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Wyndham Lewis, 1882–1957, British

Title:

Kermesse

Date:

1912

Materials & Techniques:

Gouache, watercolor, pen and black ink, black wash and graphite on medium, smooth, beige wove paper

Dimensions:

Sheet: 11 7/8 x 12 inches (30.2 x 30.5 cm)

Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Inscribed on verso in black ink, center right: "[...]"

Credit Line:

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund and Gift of Neil F. and Ivan E. Phillips in memory of their mother, Mrs. Rosalie Phillips

Copyright Status:

Accession Number:

B1982.1

Classification:

Drawings & Watercolors

Collection:

Prints and Drawings

Subject Terms:

Associated Places:

Currently On View:

Not on view

Exhibition History:

Into the Night : Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art (Barbican Art Gallery, 2019-10-04 - 2020-01-19)

Into the Night : Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art (Belvedere Museum, 2020-02-14 - 2020-06-01)

The Vorticists: Rebel Artists in London and New York, 1914-1918. (Nasher Museum of Art, 2010-09-30 - 2011-01-02)

The Vorticists: Rebel Artists in London and New York, 1914-1918. (Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 2011-01-29 - 2011-05-15)

20th Century Works on Paper (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30)

Publications:

Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977-1986, Yale Center for British Art , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1986, pp. 8, 27, no. 104, color fig. 14, N590.2 A7 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Mark Antliff, The vorticists, rebel artists in London and New York , Tate Publishing, London, 2010, pp.38-39..., no. 60, N6768.5 V6 V678 2010 (YCBA)

Linda Cabe, Blast, the British answer to futurism. , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conn., 1983, no. 1, N6768.5 V6 B52 (YCBA)

Christie's Sale Catalogue: Modern British and Irish Paintings, Drawings, and Sculptures. 13 June 1980, Christie's, June 13, 1980, p. 33, Lot 104, Sales Catalogues (YCBA)

Richard Cork, Art beyond the gallery in early 20th century England, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1985, p. 93, no. 121, N6768 C67 1985 (YCBA)

David Cottington, Radical art and the formation of the avant-garde, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2022, pp. 236, 241, 257, 267, 276-7, 278-9, , pl. 49, NX456 .C695 2022 (YCBA)

Paul Edwards, Wyndham Lewis : painter and writer, , Yale University Press, New Haven, 2000, p. 80, no. 48, NJ18 L59 E38 2000 (YCBA)

Walter Michel, Wyndham Lewis: paintings and drawings, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1971, p. 353, no. 72, NJ18 L59 +M53 (YCBA)

Florence Ostende, Into the Night : Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art, Prestel, Munich and London, p. 84, N6486 .I585 2019 (LC) Oversize

Duncan Robinson, Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977 - 1986, , Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, October 1986, pp. 8, 27, no. 104, col. fig. 14, N1 B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Lisa Tickner, Modern life & modern subjects, British art in the early twentieth century , Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 2000, p. 105, pl. 74, ND468 T53 2000 (YCBA)

Lisa Tickner, Popular Culture of Kermesse: Lewis, Painting, and Performance, 1912-13, Modernism/Modernity, vol. 4, no. 2, April 1997, p. 88, V0405 (YCBA)

Wyndham Lewis and vorticism, The Tate Gallery, 6 July-19 August 1956. , Tate Publishing, London [England], 1956, p. 13, no. 16, NJ18 L59 T38 (YCBA)

Wyndham Lewis, 1882-1957., Fundaciâon Juan March, Madrid, 2010, pp. 116-117, cat. 19, NJ18.L59 W953413 2010 + (YCBA)

Judith Zilczer, Noble Buyer, John Quinn, patron of the avant-garde , Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, 1978, p. 170, SI13.2 Q4 (LSF)

Link:

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:9703