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Auction archive: Lot number 88

Lewis (Wyndham, artist and writer, 1882-1957) - 8 Autograph Letters signed "Wyndham Lewis", "W. Lewis" or "W", 1 Autograph Note signed & a telegram to Desmond Harmsworth

Estimate
£2,000 - £3,000
ca. US$2,974 - US$4,461
Price realised:
£1,500
ca. US$2,230
Auction archive: Lot number 88

Lewis (Wyndham, artist and writer, 1882-1957) - 8 Autograph Letters signed "Wyndham Lewis", "W. Lewis" or "W", 1 Autograph Note signed & a telegram to Desmond Harmsworth

Estimate
£2,000 - £3,000
ca. US$2,974 - US$4,461
Price realised:
£1,500
ca. US$2,230
Beschreibung:

8 Autograph Letters signed "Wyndham Lewis", "W. Lewis" or "W", 1 Autograph Note signed & a telegram to Desmond Harmsworth
12pp. & 7 envelopes, sm. 4to & 8vo, Percy Street & Carlton Street, [London], 14th May 1932 - 13th May 1934 (2 undated), on financial matters, painting, publishing and his health, “I have a fine group of portraits now as I think you will agree when you arrive. Today I started the Speed - King (of the Aix) Flight - Commodore Olibar. He is magnificent! I have a tip-top one of Rebecca West... as to my health it is better... I had a ‘flare-up’, as the doctors call it. My kidneys are not functioning properly”, folds ; and a T.L.s. from his wife, G.A. Wyndham Lewis on Lewis’s death, 15th March 1957, “Thank you for your letter of sympathy. It is a very great loss to me indeed I assure you. He was the humane and gay person to live with, tears starting along folds, v.s., v.d. ; and a few pieces of correspondence on Wyndham Lewis v.s., v.d.

Auction archive: Lot number 88
Auction:
Datum:
11 Dec 2008
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
Beschreibung:

8 Autograph Letters signed "Wyndham Lewis", "W. Lewis" or "W", 1 Autograph Note signed & a telegram to Desmond Harmsworth
12pp. & 7 envelopes, sm. 4to & 8vo, Percy Street & Carlton Street, [London], 14th May 1932 - 13th May 1934 (2 undated), on financial matters, painting, publishing and his health, “I have a fine group of portraits now as I think you will agree when you arrive. Today I started the Speed - King (of the Aix) Flight - Commodore Olibar. He is magnificent! I have a tip-top one of Rebecca West... as to my health it is better... I had a ‘flare-up’, as the doctors call it. My kidneys are not functioning properly”, folds ; and a T.L.s. from his wife, G.A. Wyndham Lewis on Lewis’s death, 15th March 1957, “Thank you for your letter of sympathy. It is a very great loss to me indeed I assure you. He was the humane and gay person to live with, tears starting along folds, v.s., v.d. ; and a few pieces of correspondence on Wyndham Lewis v.s., v.d.

Auction archive: Lot number 88
Auction:
Datum:
11 Dec 2008
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
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