Landscape with low Cliffs and Woods

Details

Graham Sutherland, O.M. (1903-1980)
Landscape with low Cliffs and Woods
signed 'Graham Sutherland' (lower right), inscribed 'Landscape with low Cliffs and Woods' (on the reverse)
watercolour, brush and black ink, grey wash and pencil on paper laid on panel
18½ x 31½ in. (47 x 80 cm.)
Executed in 1938

Provenance

(Sir) Colin Anderson, London.
Lady Anderson, her sale; Christie's, London, 6 March 1987, lot 281, where purchased by the present owner's family, and by descent.

Literature

E. Sackville-West, Graham Sutherland, London, 1958, pl. 16.

Exhibited

London, Rosenberg and Helft, Recent Works of Graham Sutherland, September-October 1938, no. 15.
London, The British Institute of Adult Education, 1942, no. 69.
Florida, Palm Beach, The Society of the Four Arts, Sutherland Moore, February 1953, no. 28.
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Sutherland, Moore, March 1953, no. 24.
London, Tate Gallery, Private Views - Works from the Collection of Twenty Friends of the Tate Gallery, April-May 1963, no. 22.
Cardiff, Arts Council of Great Britain, Welsh Committee, Graham Sutherland, Drawings of Wales, June 1963, no. 11: this exhibition travelled to Beaumaris, David Hughes Old School Buildings, July 1963; Haverfordwest, St Mary's Hall, August 1963; Swansea, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, August-September 1963; and Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, October 1963.

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Lot Essay

In a letter to Colin Anderson, the previous owner of this work, Sutherland commented on Wales, 'I wish I could give you an idea of the exultant strangeness of this place - for strange it certainly is, many people whom I know hate it, and I cannot but admit that it possesses an element of disquiet ... the whole setting is one of exuberance - of darkness and light - of decay and life. Rarely have I been so conscious of these elements in so small a compass' (G. Sutherland, Welsh Sketchbook, Horizon, No. 28, 1942).

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