Portrait of T. S. Eliot is a 1938 painting by Wyndham Lewis, depicting the US-born British writer T. S. Eliot. It received publicity when it was rejected by the Royal Academy of Arts. Eliot praised the painting and it became one of Lewis' most celebrated works. It was bought by the Durban Art Gallery in Durban.
Portrait of T. S. Eliot
Percy Wyndham Lewis was a British writer, painter and critic. He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art and edited BLAST, the literary magazine of the Vorticists.
Lewis in 1913
Wyndham Lewis, 1912, The Dancers
Wyndham Lewis, c.1914–15, Workshop (Tate, London)
Wyndham Lewis, photograph by George Charles Beresford, 1917