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Robed figures and pelican in a desolate landscape: four drawings from the album 'Threshold: Quasi-Automatic Drawings'
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AUSTIN OSMAN SPARE (1886-1956)
Robed figures and pelican in a desolate landscape: four drawings from the album 'Threshold: Quasi-Automatic Drawings'
pencil and coloured pencil on paper
7 ½ x 12 in. (19 x 30.5 cm.) (3);
6 5⁄8 x 9 ½ in. (16.8 x 24.2 cm.) (1)(4)
Executed in 1944-45.
Robed figures and pelican in a desolate landscape: four drawings from the album 'Threshold: Quasi-Automatic Drawings'
pencil and coloured pencil on paper
7 ½ x 12 in. (19 x 30.5 cm.) (3);
6 5⁄8 x 9 ½ in. (16.8 x 24.2 cm.) (1)(4)
Executed in 1944-45.
Provenance
Hannen Swaffer, November 1945.
Anonymous sale; Gorringe's, Lewes, 26 September 2017, lots 1092, 1095, 1097 and 1105, where purchased by the present owner.
Anonymous sale; Gorringe's, Lewes, 26 September 2017, lots 1092, 1095, 1097 and 1105, where purchased by the present owner.
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