Sketches by Austin Osman Spare for sale by Caduceus Books

You've probably already subscribed to our RSS feed, followed us on Twitter, and joined our Facebook page. (You're so Web 2.0!)
But have you checked out our new Esoteric Book Club? First pick is Robert Anton Wilson's Quantum Psychology. Participate here!

I received an e-mail yesterday from Caduceus Books that three pencil drawings by noted occultist Austin Osman Spare have recently become available, as well as a work in pastel (pictured left).

Description of the illustrations and prices follow:

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

The sketches, further details, and pruchasing information can be found on CaduceusBooks.com.

Related posts:

1. Original art by Austin Osman Spare for sale by Fulgur
2. Original sketches by Austin Osman Spare for sale by Fulgur
3. New three volume Austin Osman Spare book
4. Fulgur selling original Austin Osman Spare artwork
5. Fulgur has a new batch of Austin Osman Spare originals for sale