- Artist
- Wyndham Lewis 1882–1957
- Medium
- Oil paint on wood
- Dimensions
- Support: 1829 × 787 mm
frame: 1900 × 860 × 66 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1956
- Reference
- T00099
Catalogue entry
T00099 BAGDAD 1927–8
Not inscribed.
Oil on plywood, 72×31 (183×79).
Purchased from the Zwemmer Gallery (Knapping Fund) 1956.
Coll: Curtis Moffat; purchased at his sale, c. 1932, by the Zwemmer Gallery.
Exh: Redfern Gallery, May 1949 (122); 20th Century Form, Whitechapel Art Gallery, April–May 1953 (26); Abstract, Cubist, Formalist, Sur-realist, Redfern Gallery, April–May 1954 (274); Trends in British Art 1900–54, Guildhall Art Gallery, July–August 1954 (89); British Council, British Kunst 1900–55, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, April 1956 (50); British Council, Britisk Natidskunst, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, May–June 1956 (50); Tate Gallery, July–August 1956 (121).
Lit: Handley-Read, 1951, pp.42–3, 56, 58, 86–7, repr. pl.9.
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Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I
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