Oil paint on canvas
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/wyndham-lewis-1502" aria-label="More by Wyndham Lewis" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Wyndham Lewis</a>
La Suerte
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1939
adults
clothing and personal items
destiny
domestic
fortune telling
individuals: female
interior - non-specific
interiors
Lewis, Wyndham, Mrs
magic and occultism
named individuals
objects
people
playing card
portraits
religion and belief
shawl
sports and games
woman
painting oil paint canvas
1 September 2011 – 31 January 2012
2012-01-31
1 September 2011 – 31 January 2012
2012-01-31
2011-09-01
Kunsthal Rotterdam (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
2011-09-01
Stanley Spencer
Loan-out
6 December 2024 – 22 April 2025
2025-04-22
6 December 2024 – 22 April 2025
2025-04-22
2024-12-06
Bodleian Library (Oxford, UK)
2024-12-06
Oracles, Omens and Answers
Loan-out
La Suerte
support: 610 × 457 mm
frame: 755 × 603 × 72 mm
Presented by the <a href="/search?gid=999999975" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Contemporary Art Society</a> 1939
<p><b>N05039</b> LA SUERTE 1938
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Wyndham Lewis’ b.r.
<br/>Canvas, 24×18 (61×45·5).
<br/>Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1939.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased by the C.A.S. 1938.
<br/><i>Exh:</i>
Beaux Arts Gallery, June–July 1938 (4); Tate Gallery, July–August 1956 (143).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Handley-Read, 1951, pp.45, 75, as completed 1938.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> Carlos Peacock, <i>Painters and Writers</i>, 1949, pl.91 (in colour).</p>
<p>‘La Suerte’ is the Spanish for ‘Fate’. The model was the artist's wife.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I
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2004-07-20T00:00:00
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adults clothing and personal items destiny domestic fortune telling individuals: female interior - non-specific interiors Lewis, Wyndham, Mrs magic and occultism named individuals objects people playing card portraits religion and belief shawl sports and games woman