Austin Osman Spare, London Exhibition

[Jaakko V.]

Keep this in mind if going to London in near future.

Austin Osman Spare: Fallen Visionary
Tuesday 14 September 2010 to Saturday 13 November 2010

The fascinating rise and fall of Austin Osman Spare, who lived and worked in Southwark in the early twentieth century, is charted in a new exhibition this Autumn at the Cuming Museum...The exhibition will feature Spare's work from the Southwark Art Collection and loans from many private and institutional collectors. It will be the largest showcase of his work in a public museum since his death in 1956...

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Visited. It was good, yet "largest" meaning in this case one small gallery room. Lots of self portraits, but also plenty of works filled with mysticism and symbolic work. And at its best, tits, heh..
One can admire strongly the talented pencil works. It's not like oil pains, where you just overpaint until you're satisfied, but this pencil & watercolors type of things, possibly among hardest and he mastered it with amazing confidence in the lines.

[imaginaryforces]

I saw a brief review of this the other day, I think I might have to pop along and check it out. His drawings are something else.

[Litharge]

Just now came across this (and don't see it appearing elsewhere on S.I.):

http://strangeattractor.co.uk/books/austin-osman-spare-3/

[Steve]

Thanks for that, have just ordered...