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NORMAN LEWIS (1909 - 1979) Untitled (Procession Composition).
Oil, pen and ink with wash on cream wove paper, 1949. 610x483 mm; 24x19 inches. Signed and dated '49 in pencil, lower right.
Provenance: acquired directly from the artist, private collection; thence by descent, private collection, Texas.
This striking work on paper is one of the earliest examples we have located of a processional composition by Norman Lewis. This descending calvacade predates his inventive calligraphy of small figures of the early 1950s - figures that will inhabit his paintings and works on paper for over a decade.
