Rome Scholars
SOLDStanley Lewis (1905 - 2009):
Cartoon for Allegory, circa 1929
Framed (ref: 1468)
Signed
Pencil with white and green chalk highlights, squared, 50 1/4 x 93 3/4 in. (127 x 238 cm.).
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Provenance: from the artist's own collection.
Exhibited: The Unknown Artist: Stanley Lewis and his contemporaries, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery & Bedford Museum, 12th June - 5th September 2010..cat.no.24
Writing a testimonial for Stanley , in the year this was created, Randolph Schwabe, Master of Drawing at the Royal College of Art commented:
Mr Lewis is an able draughtsman and has undertaken large and ambitious figure paintings with much interest in the composition of them. His work is entirely sincere and straightforward.... (11th July 1930).
A review of the 1930 Scholarship finalists (undated newspaper cutting) noted that the cartoon was "much more successful than the finished painting".
