Beneath a 1921 Wyndham Lewis painting, researches found a long-lost Vorticist landscape. Did he ruin it on purpose?
Researchers analyzing a 1921 canvas by British artist and critic Wyndham Lewis have discovered that the surface layer was painted over an entirely different work. Underneath Lewis’s portrait,Atlantic CityUntil now, all paintings by Saunders from that period were considered lost.
Lewis was a co-founder of the British avant-garde art movement known as Vorticism, and Saunders was one of its members. Though short-lived, the movement was influential, counting poets T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound among its supporters. The Vorticists advocated for “a new living abstraction” that would harness the dynamism of Cubism and Futurism, employing hard edges and bold colors, which they saw as an antidote to the prevailing style of representative and decorative arts.
It seems possible, then, that Lewis painted over Saunders’s work intentionally, “in a fit of pique,” according to Wright. In 2019, Rebecca Chipkin and Helen Kohn, two former students of the Courtauld Institute in London, embarked on a six-month analysis ofwith the hunch that it concealed another image because of the uneven texture and cracks in the surface paint.. Courtesy of the Courtauld.
Using X-ray imaging, the researchers were able to identify the bold geometric lines of Saunders’s abstracted depiction of the urban landscape.
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