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Savonarola

Austin Osman Spare (1886-1956)

Price Realised GBP 11,875
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Savonarola

Austin Osman Spare (1886-1956)

Price Realised GBP 11,875
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Price Realised GBP 11,875
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Austin Osman Spare (1886-1956)
Savonarola
signed and dated 'Austin O. Spare 1906' (on the backboard); signed again, inscribed and dated again 'Savonarola/Austin O. Spare. 1907.' (on the artist's label attached to another backboard)
pencil, watercolour and gouache
15½ x 11 in. (39.4 x 28 cm.)
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First exhibited in 1907, this study of the famous Italian Dominican priest Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498) gained much admiration from critics. Based on the portrait by the Florentine painter Fra Bartolomeo (1472-1517), Spare’s study shows a great deal of empathy towards the subject, who was excommunicated and executed for his outspoken views on moral corruption within the church, book-burning and ‘immortal art’.

We are very grateful to Robert Ansell for his assistance in preparing this catalogue entry, and those for lots 33, 39, 56, 63 and 66.

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