Design for a Book Cover

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: The Victoria and Albert Museum (the UK).

The painting provided by the author for the exhibition “Wyndham Lewis” held at the Tate Gallery in 1956 is a landscape element with a central shape, apparently intended to denote a tree. The composition, although declared as a design for the cover of a book, is an independent work in the style of vorticism. Helen Saunders confirmed that she was a great colourist and that her ideas for stories were extremely original. She used a harmonious combination of muted shades of green, bright yellow, organically separating them with white, grey and black stripes.