拍品 32
32
Graham Sutherland, O.M. (1903-1980)
Graham Sutherland, O.M. (1903-1980)

Sketch for the backdrop of The Wanderer

细节
Graham Sutherland, O.M. (1903-1980)
Sketch for the backdrop of The Wanderer
watercolour, gouache, coloured crayon, brush and black ink
12 x 18 in. (30.5 x 47 cm.)
Executed in 1940

拍品专文

The present work is a sketch for the backdrop that Sutherland had designed for the final scene of The Wanderer, a ballet choreographed by Sir Frederick Ashton, with music by Schubert, and first performed in the New Theatre at Sadler's Wells in 1940, with Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn as the principal dancers.

A similar squared-up composition, formerly in the collection of Sir Kenneth Clark, K.C.B. is illustrated in F. Arcangeli, Graham Sutherland, Milan, 1973, no.27.