Scylla

Scylla

Ithell ColquhounWW-1938-218861
1938·Oil paint on board·support: 914 x 610 mm frame: 1004 x 706 x 69 mm

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Year
1938
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support: 914 x 610 mm frame: 1004 x 706 x 69 mm
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Ithell Colquhoun
Ithell Colquhoun

Painting

Ithell Colquhoun was a British painter, occultist, poet and author. Stylistically her artwork was affiliated with Surrealism. In the early 1930s she met André Breton in Paris, and later started working with Surrealist automatism techniques in her writing and painting. In the late 1930s, Colquhoun was part of the British Surrealist Group before being expelled because she refused to renounce her association with occult groups, including the Ordo Templi Orientis and the Fellowship of Isis. Despite her break with the movement, Colquhoun was a lifelong adherent to Surrealism and its automatic techniques.

Shillong, Meghalaya, India

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1942 · Engraving from an illustrated book with five etchings (one with aquatint) and five engravings

WW-1942-M016364

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Year
1938
Dimensions
support: 914 x 610 mm frame: 1004 x 706 x 69 mm
Watts ID
WW-1938-218861

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Ithell Colquhoun

Ithell Colquhoun

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