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Stanley Lewis:
Self-portrait, c.1930
Passe-partout (ref: 4093)

Black chalk with white highlights on buff paper.

Tags: Stanley Lewis chalk artists at work men 1.PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST Lewis

Provenance: from the artist's own collection.

Literature: Llewellyn, Sacha, and Paul Liss. Portrait of an Artist. Liss Llewellyn, 2021, p.283.

Exhibited: The Unknown Artist: Stanley Lewis and his contemporaries, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery & Bedford Museum, 12th June - 5th September 2010..cat.no.17

Stanley never travelled anywhere without his sketchbook to hand - " Look at Durer – he never left the house without a sketchbook, recording a broken wall, a tree, a figure walking..... I want to paint life; life everywhere, rather than death - an artist must have a theme; a  trick I've enjoyed every minute of it with a pencil in my hand or a brush.