Group X

Group X was a short lived group of British artists formed by Wyndham Lewis in 1920 to provide a continuing focus for avant-garde art in Britain following the First World War

Wyndham Lewis
*Edith Sitwell* (1923–35)
Tate

© Wyndham Lewis and the estate of Mrs G A Wyndham Lewis by kind permission of the Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust (a registered charity)

It was an attempt to revive Wyndham Lewis’s pre-war vorticist group. One group exhibition was held in 1922. Other artists associated with Group X included William Roberts, Cuthbert Hamilton and Edward McKnight Kauffer.

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Selected artworks in the collection

Wyndham Lewis Bagdad

1927–8
William Roberts The Diners

1919

On display at Tate Modern part of Media Networks
William Roberts The Cinema

1920

On display at Tate Britain part of Historic and Modern British Art
Wyndham Lewis Mrs Schiff

1923–4

Group X

Selected artworks in the collection

Wyndham Lewis Bagdad

William Roberts The Diners

William Roberts The Cinema

Wyndham Lewis Mrs Schiff

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