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Property Sold to Benefit Clifton College, Bristol

Edward Morland Lewis

Chelsea

No reserve

Auction Closed

November 26, 03:10 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Edward Morland Lewis

1903 - 1943

Chelsea


oil on canvas

unframed: 76 by 51cm.; 30 by 20in.

framed: 88 by 63cm.; 34¾ by 24¾in.

Executed in 1928.


We are grateful to Richard Shone for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.

Cecil Taylor, by whom bequeathed to Clifton College, Bristol

London, The London Group, January 1929 (details untraced)

Somerset, Street, The Atkinson Gallery, The London Group, 1913-1939, 1 - 28 February 1995, no. 34

In the late-1920s Lewis painted several scenes of Chelsea streets, showing the influence of Walter Sickert by whom he had been taught.


Richard Shone