Austin Osman Spare

The following images are of First Edition prints of pen and ink drawings. These prints were made in for use in the Starlit Mire which was published in 1911 (though some are dated 1909) and are limited to 350 copies. They are genuine, original prints, 93 years old, professionally framed behind glass. Each print is 7ins x 5ins, the overall dimensions of the frames are 13ins x 11ins. They look truly impressive and any buyer not delighted is invited to return the item.

Senseless Seven
Kenneth and Steffi Grant utilised this image on the dustwrapper of Images and Oracles of Austin Osman Spare. A self portrait. The young artist is surrounded by five horned animals, one tusked boar and a grotesque horned satyr. He appears to be day dreaming and seems to be partaking of their features (and natures?). £120 SOLD

Madness of Mud
A sleeping (or dead) man is carried through an amorphous black tide. Her bearers and the accompanying figures are deeply ambigous. Some are grinning, one lewdly approaches a female in the foreground, others appear in either pain or ecstasy.They are probably not human, one has a tail. In the background a horned female raises her palm into the night sky. Above all a single star shines. £120 SOLD

Peace of the Wicked
A middle aged man slumps in a chair, ambiguous statuettes (one ugly another hermaphrodite), a manuscript and a bag (of money?) lie on the table in front of him. Behind him rises the young Spare, a birds skull hangs from his neck. A winged feather being (a feature of Spares work) appears to embrace him. £120 SOLD

The Torment of Futurity
A pointed ear Spare sits before statues of Pan (who may share his features), a headless cenataur and an old Chinese man. Meanwhile a beared man reaches up to the sky. Curiously all hands are either missing or obscured. £120 SOLD

Twofold Slavery
A man weeps infront of a janus-like statue of a Goddess and Pan.. Two other men appear to grieve. Meanwhile a third figure gives an evil grin whilst playing the pan pipes and letching at the naked woman lying in front of him. £100 SOLD

Harbingers of Spring
The figure with boils on the bed is dying. An apothecary gives a potion and a parson gives prayers. A younger figure with feathers rises above the bed. The liberation of Death? £90 SOLD

The Birth of Eternity
Below an lamp a man dies, a figure with a grinning skull head reaches out of the darkness towards him. The fear of Death? £90 SOLD

The Napkin
A womans stares at herself in the mirror whilst a grotesque horned being lurks mounfully at her side. In contrast a small, modestly dressed figure in the foreground looks the other way £85 SOLD

Gutter Love
An ornately dressed women, with a peacock and a grinning grotesque nestling in her skirts appears to be looking in a mirror. However her reflection is an ugly, pointed eared hermaphrodite £85 SOLD

Whited Sepulchres
A woman in a feathered hat appears oblivious to a threatening skull headed figure grasping a lightening bolt who lurks behind a curtain. Before him stands a bizarre fetish object £90 SOLD