Ithell Colquhoun (/ ˈ aɪ θ ə l k ə ˈ h uː n / 9 October 1906 – 11 April 1988) 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.

2025年2月5日 · The British surrealist Ithell Colquhoun combined magic and mythology to create art from buried folklore. By Michael Prodger In 1907, Ithell Colquhoun (pronounced “Eye-thell Co-hoon”), at the age of one, arrived in England with her family from India, where her father had been part of the colonial ...

Ithell Colquhoun ( 9 October 1906 – 11 April 1988) 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 …

Ithell Colquhoun sees the divine design of nature infused through all living things. Rock formations, tree stumps, and vegetables transform to become human limbs and body parts. The artist had a lifelong love for water and an interest in the …

2025年1月30日 · Since her death, Ithell Colquhoun (1906-88) has been better known as an occultist than an artist. Now, her reputation as a leading figure of British Surrealism is being restored, in an...

2019年10月11日 · British artist Ithell Colquhoun’s uncanny paintings are full of androgynous gods, murderous goddesses, yoni-like fruit, and disembodied, fleshy parts floating across hallucinatory, dreamlike landscapes. “My life is uneventful, but I sometimes have an interesting dream,” Colquhoun said in 1939.

Ithell Colquhoun was one of the most radical artists of her generation. An important figure in British surrealism during the 1930s and 1940s, she was also an innovative writer and practicing occultist who charted her own course between the worlds of art and magic.

View Ithell Colquhoun’s 101 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. See available paintings, works on paper, and prints and multiples for sale and learn about the artist.

2024年9月4日 · A pioneering figure in the British Surrealist movement, Ithell Colquhoun explored themes deeply influenced by her spiritual journey, crafting art that navigated between the realms of the esoteric and surreal.

Colquhoun was a pioneering figure in the British Surrealist movement, renowned for her work as an occult artist, writer, and theorist. Over her seven-decade career, she explored themes deeply influenced by her spiritual journey, crafting art that seamlessly navigated between the realms of the esoteric and surreal.