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Austin Osman Spare - Moon-wrack by AOS
Paulus - Apr 23, 2008 - 07:28 PM
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Is this
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the same item sold by Fulgur (item 12 on the link below) in March of this year?
http://www.fulgur.co.uk/authors/aos/aos-art-for-sale/
If so the mark up is over 80 times the price! I'm staggered!
Paulus - Apr 23, 2008 - 07:38 PM
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Whoops - I was a bit trigger happy with the keyboard there.
Of course I meant over 8 times the price.
Even so that frame must be very valiuable!
lashtal - Apr 23, 2008 - 09:04 PM
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Paulus,
Just a reminder of the following extract from the Guidelines:
"You must not use the Forum to provide publicity for Auctions: posts relating to Auctions will be deleted except where they are intended solely for the raising of funds intended exclusively for LAShTAL.COM."
I have edited your post to remove the link. The thread remains unlocked as it raises some interesting questions.
bazelek - Apr 23, 2008 - 09:43 PM
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lashtal wrote: › I have edited your post to remove the link. The thread remains unlocked as it raises some interesting questions.
Interesting indeed Paul.
As I have recently offered the piece at what I would regard as a fair market value, I won't comment on the price.
I can say that the theory of Spare using his blood to colour a drawing is highly imaginative, but unlikely. Discoloration of this type is usually due to 'foxing' - essentially the oxidisation of iron particles in paper. Of course, blood contains iron, but that's about as close as it gets... 
bazelek
MichaelStaley - Apr 24, 2008 - 12:48 AM
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Paulus wrote: › Of course I meant over 8 times the price.
One thing to name a price, quite another to achieve it.
As Bazelek says, a highly sanguine view of foxing. I have a 1952 sketchbook by Spare, one page of which is marred by what may or may not be blood; and if it is, it may or may not be Spare's. I'll start weaving my fantasy now, ahead of a putative sale.
