£3,800
AUSTIN OSMAN SPARE (1886-1956). THE EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN RACE. Signed with initials lower left and again (in full) lower centre, pencil and wash on paper 60 x 40cm. * The portrait in the centre is Walter Warren (18691942), engraver for Purdey and Sons, Gunmakers, a close neighbour of the Spare family in Kennington, and the author of 'The Youth and the Sage' (1927), which Spare illustrated with a frontispiece. Provenance: London, Christie's South Kensington, May 12th 1994, lot 90.
Good condition.
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