St Dorothea

Details

Aleister Crowley (Royal Leamington Spa 1875-1947 Hastings)
St Dorothea
signed with monogram (lower left)
pencil and watercolour on paper
13 ¾ x 19 ½ in. (34.3 x 49.5 cm.)

Provenance

with Cecil Williamson.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, An old master: the art of Aleister Crowley, London, The October Gallery, illustrated, catalogue not traced.

Exhibited

London, The October Gallery, An old master: the art of Aleister Crowley, April 1998, no. 14.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Sale room notice

It has been suggested that the title for this work should read St Dorothea and not as printed in the catalogue.

Lot Essay

This work was previously owned by Cecil Williamson (1909-1999) a Neopagan Witch and founder of both the Witchcraft Research Center (which was a part of MI6's war against Nazi Germany) and the Museum of Witchcraft in Boscastle, Cornwall. Williamson was a friend of Crowley's and presumably the present lot was a gift from the artist.

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