New display at Leeds art gallery about Praxitella and a hidden painting which has been discovered beneath it
- 10 months ago
Curator Nigel Walsh interviewed and the team at the gallery with the new display about Praxitella and a hidden painting which has been discovered beneath it.
Praxitella has been part of the gallery’s collection since 1945, and was created by famed British avant-garde artist Percy Wyndham Lewis in around 1921.
A recent research project by conservation students at The Courtauld Department of Conservation in London used specialist X-ray analysis to reveal a lost painting of Atlantic City by Helen Saunders, a contemporary of Lewis and fellow exponent of Vorticism, the radical and short-lived abstract art movement active between 1914 and 1917
Praxitella has been part of the gallery’s collection since 1945, and was created by famed British avant-garde artist Percy Wyndham Lewis in around 1921.
A recent research project by conservation students at The Courtauld Department of Conservation in London used specialist X-ray analysis to reveal a lost painting of Atlantic City by Helen Saunders, a contemporary of Lewis and fellow exponent of Vorticism, the radical and short-lived abstract art movement active between 1914 and 1917