Percy
Wyndham Lewis
Percy Wyndham Lewis: A Life in Art and Literature Born: November 18, 1882, on a yacht near Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada Died: March 7, 1957, London, England (aged 74) Nationality: British (though born in Canada) Early Life and Artistic Development Lewis’s early life was marked …
A portrait built from Percy Wyndham Lewis's own colours
Every 4 approved work contributes its dominant tone to a single flowing field. Sorted along the hue wheel, the strip reads as a smooth spectrum. Click any band to reveal its full four-colour palette.
Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.
Every painting, placed on the hue wheel
Each dot is a work — its angle set by hue, its distance from the centre by saturation. Hover a dot to see the painting.
The signature, in numbers
Where the colour came from
Up to 24 paintings representing the most frequent palette tones — each shown with its dominant colours.
