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Primal Urge
Details
Austin Osman Spare (1886-1956)
Primal Urge
signed with initials 'AOS' (lower left), signed again and inscribed '17 'Primal Urge'/by Austin O. Spare' (on a label attached to the reverse)
pencil and gouache on panel
26 x 32 3/8 in. (66 x 82.3 cm.)
Primal Urge
signed with initials 'AOS' (lower left), signed again and inscribed '17 'Primal Urge'/by Austin O. Spare' (on a label attached to the reverse)
pencil and gouache on panel
26 x 32 3/8 in. (66 x 82.3 cm.)
Provenance
Collection of Watercolours and Drawings by Austin Osman Spare; Christie's, South Kensington, 12 May 1994, lot 74, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
R. Ansell (ed.), The Exhibition Catalogues of Austin Osman Spare, London, 2012, pp. 160 and 307.
Exhibited
London, The Mansion House Tavern, Exhibition of Paintings by Austin Osman Spare, June - July 1952, no. 17.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.