LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on board

Measurements:

24.02 in. (61.00 cm.) (height) by 20.00 in. (50.80 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'Sutherland 12.12.46' (upper left); indistinctly signed again 'SUTHERLAND' (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

Venice, British Council, The British Pavilion, XXVI Biennale, June - September 1952, no. 19. Paris, British Council, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Graham Sutherland Exhibition, November - December 1952, no. 17: this exhibition travelled to Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, January - February 1953; and Zurich, Kunsthaus, March - April 1953. London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Tate Gallery, Sutherland: An exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, May - August 1953, no. 20. Berlin, British Council, Haus am Waldsee, Graham Sutherland: exhibition of paintings and drawings, September - October 1954, no. 14: this exhibition travelled to Cologne; Stuttgart; Mannheim; and Hamburg, 1954-55.

Literature:

J. Hayes, The Art of Graham Sutherland, Oxford, 1980, pp. 108-109, no. 74, illustrated. Exhibition catalogue, Graham Sutherland, London, Tate Gallery, 1982, p. 111, dated '17 December 1946'.

Provenance:

with Marlborough Fine Art, London, where purchased by Frankland Dark, by 1952.