Lot 80
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Graham Sutherland, O.M. (1903-1980)
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Graham Sutherland, O.M. (1903-1980)

Tourette

Details
Graham Sutherland, O.M. (1903-1980)
Tourette
signed, inscribed and dated 'Tourettes/1947 Sutherland' (lower left)
pencil, chalk, watercolour and bodycolour
15 x 17½ in. (38 x 44.5 cm.)
Provenance
with Galeria Il Capricorno, Venice.
with Rex Evans Gallery, Los Angeles.
Professor Bruno, February 1973.
Purchased by the present owner in Belgium, 1990.
Exhibited
Venice, Galeria Il Capricorno, March 1994, catalogue not traced.
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Lot Essay

The present work is a study for the oil of the same title painted in 1948. Sutherland discovered the landscape around Tourette-sur-Loup, not far from Vence, whilst exploring the Riviera with Francis Bacon. The rocks and grasses of a dried-up river bed were to be a fruitful source of ideas. The same landscape was to be one of the inspirations, in 1950, for his monumental canvas Origins of the Land (Tate, London).

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