Rise, fall and rise of an artist.(Exhibitions)

Publication: Spectator

Publication Date: 26-FEB-05

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Wyndham Lewis Olympia, from 1-6 March

It will be interesting to see if next week's full-scale Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) exhibition at Olympia will help, as previous Olympia shows have done, to cement the artist's reviving reputation. Certainly the timing is good in relation to last month's scholarly symposium and the excellent recent exhibition concentrating on his works on paper, both at the Courtauld, where the growing number of his pictures controlled by the Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust are stored and available to researchers.

Angus Stewart, curator, together with Matthew Hall, of the Olympia exhibition, contribute a spirited re-assessment of Lewis to the catalogue, which has been printed by Apollo and has a preface by its editor suggesting that Lewis's reputation has been...

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