With its bold colours and highly stylised design, this textile panel designed by the painter, writer and critic Percy Wyndham Lewis illustrates the radical and interdisciplinary approach to the aesthetics of modern, everyday life championed by the British avant-garde in the early years of the twentieth-century. Disrupting traditional divisions between the applied and Replica Handbags s, figures such as Lewis, Roger Fry, Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell brought Post-Impressionist experimentalism into the home with a range of striking designs for furniture, printed fabrics and ceramics.

Produced for either the Omega Workshops, or Lewis’s own splinter group, the short-lived Rebel Arts Centre, the hand-block printed primitivist design repeats motifs from Lewis’s other textiles and drawings during his intensely creative pre-war period. Arranged in the same brightly coloured horizontal bands, the elongated, crouching figure and fox motif reappear in a silk robe by Lewis from 1914, and clearly belong to a distinct repertoire of figures that he developed at this t.mes . Executed as Lewis was starting to crystalise his own Cubo-Futurist aesthetic, Vorticism, the seriality of block-printing would certainly have appealed to the artist’s interest in movement, repetition and geometry that is so vividly explored in his more abstract works.