Two of the founders of Vorticism are depicted in this painting. On the left Ezra Pound is reclining stiffly in an easy chair whilst Wyndham Lewis is contorting himself in a pyrotechnic display of Vorticist righteousness. In the centre is the first issue of Blast – the shocking pink coloured manifesto of the movement that they had co-founded to bring cubism and futurism to England, with a British twist.A third figure, that of Gaudier Brzeska, was to have been included like a child or one of his own totemic carvings, rising in between the other two, but was painted out in favour of the book instead. He may yet though make a reappearance.
Paul Houlton 
Two of the founders of Vorticism are depicted in this painting. On the left Ezra Pound is reclining stiffly in an easy chair whilst Wyndham Lewis is contorting himself in a pyrotechnic display of Vorticist righteousness. In the centre is the first issue of Blast – the shocking pink coloured manifesto of the movement that they had co-founded to bring cubism and futurism to England, with a British twist.A third figure, that of Gaudier Brzeska, was to have been included like a child or one of his own totemic carvings, rising in between the other two, but was painted out in favour of the book instead. He may yet though make a reappearance.
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