Austin Osman Spare
Pencil Drawing on artist’s card stock, 15ins x 10ins mounted in a
modern folder 18ins x 15ins, A finely female head looks out while aetheric plant lines surge up around her from
which, at the margins, three heads look out. The upper half of the drawing is
given over to the swirling lines of plant energy. There is smudging, some damp
staining plus scratches and marks to the surface of the board. Mounted in a
heavy card folder (21ins x 15ins) for safe keeping Order No. AOS01 £425
Pencil on paper 10.5ins x 8ins. mounted on artist’s card stock
mounted in a modern folder 18ins x 15ins. A female head looks out, to her side
seven heads manifest from swirling lines. A band of discolouration down one
side suggests that for awhile the picture was framed and displayed. The surface
of the drawing is marked with, maybe, paint pigment that has smudged, there is
some damp staining in the upper part of the picture Order No. AOS02 £425
Pencil drawing 11ins x 17.5ins (in glazed frame 17ins x
23.5ins) Signed AOS. We see a finely drawn old man with the folds
of his cloak swirling upwards into amorphous energy that starts to manifest a
mask, snarled at by an animal head formed by the folds of his sleeve. He views
to aethereal women. They are also examined by a slightly deformed angel who
rises between a grotesque woman protruding her tongue with the almost dark moon
behind her. Above the scene swirls energy and a winged daemon head with an
arrow for a tongue. A fine example of Spare’s occult art. There are about a
dozen unobtrusive brown spots AOS03
£1275
Pastel 11.5ins x 22ins (in gazed and gilded frame 24ins x 33ins)
Signed AOS twice and dated twice 1955 & 1956. Presumably the picture was
added to at the later date. A small figure in red appears to pay homage to an
immense stature of a lascivious Indian woman. In the middle distance lie ruins
amongst a rolling landscape exquisitely depicted in smudged pastels. An
excellent landscape of the imagination AOS04 £1650