Undulating Form

Details

Graham Sutherland, O.M. (1903-1980)
Undulating Form
signed and dated 'Sutherland. 1973' (lower right), inscribed and dated again 'UNDULATING FORM 1973' (on the canvas overlap), inscribed again and dated again 'UNDULATING FORM 1973' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
70 x 67 ¼ in. (177.8 x 172.1 cm.)
Painted in 1973.

Provenance

with Galleria Ruggerini & Zonca, Milan, 1994, where acquired by the present owner’s father, and by descent.

Literature

F. Arcangeli, Graham Sutherland, Milan, 1973, p. 40, no. 220, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Graham Sutherland, Opere recenti, Milan, Galleria Bergamini, 1973, no. 3, illustrated.
R. Sanesi, Graham Sutherland, Milan, 1979, p. 143, no. 103, illustrated.
J. Hayes, Graham Sutherland, Oxford, 1980, p. 167, no. 145, illustrated.
J. Andrews (ed.), Graham Sutherland Correspondences, Parma, 1982, p. 226, no. 113, illustrated.
R. Alley, exhibition catalogue, Graham Sutherland, London, Tate Gallery, 1982, p. 161, no. 216, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Graham Sutherland, Darmstadt, Mathildenhöhe, 1982, pp. 242-243, no. 272, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Sutherland, Locarno, Pinacoteca Comunale Casa Rusca, 1988, pp. 90-91, 141, no. 77, illustrated.
M. Goldin, Da Monet a Morandi, Paesaggi dello spirito, Venice, 1997, p. 100, illustrated.
S. Roffi, Sutherland, Il pittore che smascherò la natura, Cinisello Balsamo, 2012, p. 144, illustrated.

Exhibited

Milan, Galleria Bergamini, Graham Sutherland, Opere recenti, May - June 1973, no. 3.
London, Tate Gallery, Graham Sutherland, May - July 1982, no. 216: this exhibition travelled to Darmstadt, Mathildenhöhe, August - September 1982, no. 272.
Locarno, Pinacoteca Comunale Casa Rusca, Sutherland, April - May 1988, no. 77.

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Lot Essay

'Through nature Sutherland always envisages some aspect of man, just as in his images of man, and especially his portraits, it has parallels with natural growth and deformation, with nature's ruses and the ravaging effects of the struggle for survival that Sutherland inevitably exposes.'
Douglas Cooper

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