Pair of Vorticist Painted Wood Candlestick Lamps attributed to the Omega Workshops and perhaps designed by Wyndham Lewis
of simple columnar form with turned circular bases, decorated in a polychrome abstract bizarre pattern in the style of Wyndham-Lewis
The short-lived Omega Workshops were started by Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell of the Bloomsbury Group, urged on by the critic Roger Fry, at 33, Fitzroy Square in 1913. Wyndham Lewis designed some objects in the early days of the consortium, which just managed to survive through the war, closing in 1920.
Percy Wyndham-Lewis (1882-1957, here shown photographed in 1913), a polymath born on his American father’s yacht off Nova Scotia had, by 1908, moved to London. He was one of the founding fathers of the Vorticist Movement in Art, and was briefly attached to the Omega workshops in 1914 before falling out with Roger Fry over some supposed mis-appropriated commission on a project.
