Friends & Influences: The Memoirs of an Artist - Austin Osman Spare, Ellen Victoria Spare, Walter F. Spradbery, Haydn Reynolds Mackey, Boris Anrep, L. S. Lowry, Siegfried Moos, Lotte Moos.
London: Jerusalem Press, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Small square quarto. 172pp. Orange cloth lettered in silver on spine. Color frontis. Color & b/w illustrations. One of 900 numbered copies. The Afterword by Stephen Pochin charts the constellation of artists who Spare was friends with from the end of WWI and who he included in his role as art editor of "Form" and "The Golden Hind". This memoir also includes character portraits of Ellen Victoria Spare, Walter E. Spradbery, Boris Anrep, L.S. Lowry, Haydn Reynolds Mackey, Siegfried Moos and Lotte Moos. To complement these new insights, we reproduce a previously unpublished self-portrait by Spare, along with two other stunning late pastel self-portraits. We are also fortunate to be able to reproduce a fine series of unpublished “Boro Satyr” studies that Spare dedicated to Walter E. Spradbery. "As New" copy, thus Fine in mylar protected Fine dust jacket. Item #46761
ISBN: 9780956700438
Price: $60.00