SERAPIS, 1971
Ink and gouache. 7½ x 8½in. (19.0 x 22cm.)
Provenance
Untraced.
Exhibited
Newlyn, Newlyn Art Gallery, 1971, No. 21.
Exeter, City of Exeter Art Gallery, 1972, No. 61.
Penzance, Newlyn Orion Gallery, 1976, No. 45.
The technique is stillomancy. Serapis is the Ptolemaic form of Apis, the Egyptian lord of the underworld. He was identified by the Greeks with Hades.