Study for Limestone Quarries, 1943

細節

Graham Sutherland, O.M. (Streatham 1903-1980)
Study for Limestone Quarries, 1943
pencil, pen and black ink and watercolour heightened with white, on paper
7½ x 7 in. (19.1 x 17.8 cm.)

來源

with Gallery Ruggerini & Zonca, Milan.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 18 November 2005, lot 67 (sold £8,500).

展覽

London, W/S Fine Art, Summer 2006, no. 56.

注意事項

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

拍品專文

During World War II, Sutherland was appointed as an official war artist recording bomb damage in London, Cardiff and France, and the limestone quarries in Derbyshire. In order to study the latter, he was based at Buxton in Derbyshire, where there were quarries belonging to the Lime Division of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. His method throughout was to make rapid notes on the spot which he then worked up at home into more elaborate drawings, culminating in a definitive version which he handed over to the War Artist Advisory Committee.

The group of works he produced during this period, including 'Study for Limestone Quarries', explore the shape of the land, and in more finished works, the half-human, half-organic figures and their interaction within this land. The majority of these works are in the collection of the Imperial War Museum. The present work expresses Sutherland's interest in the visceral qualities of underground scenes as he emphasises the repetition of the steep terraces made in quarries.