Scylla
1938
Surrealism
Oil on board
Collection of the Tate, United Kingdom
‘Scylla’ is Colquhoun’s most important work. The canvas is dominated by two vertical rocks rising out of clear water. Both phallic and feminine the painting situates Colquhoun’s work within the surrealist movement in its widest sense.
Ithell Colquhoun
Surrealism
Born: 9 October 1906, Shillong, India
Nationality: British
Died: 11 April 1988, Cornwall, England
Colquhoun was a painter, occultist, poet, and author. In the 1930s she was part of the British Surrealist Group but was expelled when she refused to renounce her connection with occult groups
Jezzie G 