SECOND ADAM, c.1942
Watercolour and pencil. 17¾ x 12½in. (45.7 x 32.4cm.)
Titled on the reverse
Provenance
National Trust bequest.
Tate Gallery Archive TGA 929/4/17/8.
Based on the visions of a Flemish mystic, the image shows the prelapsarian Adam manufacturing the being that will become Jesus. For full details of this astonishing story, see Ithell Colquhoun: Magician Born of Nature.