LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil and cotton wool on canvas

Measurements:

20.00 in. (50.80 cm.) (height) by 36.02 in. (91.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'Sutherland 51' (upper left), inscribed and dated again 'HORIZONTAL FORM/IN GRASSES/1951' (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

London, Hanover Gallery, Graham Sutherland Recent Works, June - August 1951, no. 13. Venice, British Council, XXVI Biennale, Exhibition of works by Sutherland, Wadsworth, Adams, Armitage, Butler, Chadwick, Clarke, Meadows, Moore, Paolozzi, Turnbull, June - October 1952, no. 53: this exhibition travelled to Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, November - December 1952; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, January 1953, no. 51; and Zürich, Kunsthaus, March 1953, no. 51. London, Arts Council, Tate Gallery, An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Graham Sutherland, May - August 1953, no. 60. Vienna, British Council, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Graham Sutherland, 1954-55, no. 32: this exhibition travelled to Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck; Berlin; Cologne; Stuttgart; Mannheim; and Hamburg. Plymouth, Arts Council, Museum and Art Gallery, Three Masters of Modern British Painting: Ivon Hitchens, Stanley Spencer, Graham Sutherland, June 1961, no. 56: this exhibition travelled to Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery, July; Leeds, Temple Newsam House, July - August; Manchester, City Art Gallery, August - September; and Cheltenham, Art Gallery and Museum, September - October. Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Graham Sutherland, October - November 1965, no. 71b. Basel, Kunsthalle, Graham Sutherland Retrospective, February - March 1966, no. 64. Munich, Haus der Kunst, Graham Sutherland Retrospective, March - May 1967, no. 31: this exhibition travelled to The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, June - July; Berlin, Haus am Waldsee, August - September; and Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, October - November. London, Tate Gallery, Graham Sutherland, May - July 1982, no. 144: this exhibition travelled to Darmstadt, Mathildenhöhe, August - September, no. 192.

Literature:

Exhibition catalogue, An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Graham Sutherland, London, Arts Council and Tate Gallery, 1953, no. 60, pl. 9. D. Cooper, Graham Sutherland, London, 1961, p. 79, pl. 105C. Exhibition catalogue, Graham Sutherland, Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, 1965, pp. 172-73, pl. 71B. F. Arcangeli, Graham Sutherland, Milan, 1973, p. 36, no. 90, illustrated. Exhibition catalogue, Graham Sutherland, London, Tate Gallery, 1982, p. 118, no. 144, illustrated. Exhibition catalogue, Graham Sutherland, Darmstadt, Mathildenhöhe, 1982, pp. 160-61, no. 192, illustrated.

Provenance:

Purchased by the present owner at the 1951 exhibition for £157.10.