Lot 19
19
Graham Sutherland, O.M. (1903-1980)

The Bat

Details
Graham Sutherland, O.M. (1903-1980)
The Bat
signed and dated 'Sutherland 58' (lower right)
oil on canvas
39½ x 32½ in. (100.5 x 81 cm.)
Provenance
Redfern Gallery, London, June 1964 where purchased by the present owner.
Exhibited
New York, Paul Rosenberg, Recent Paintings by Graham Sutherland, November-December 1959, no.12.
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Graham Sutherland, 1967, no.61: this exhibition travelled to The Hague, Gemeentemuseum; Berlin, Haus am Waldsee; and Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, (June-November 1967).
London, Tate Gallery, Graham Sutherland, May-July 1982, no.158.

Lot Essay

Ronald Alley in the 1982 exhibition catalogue writes 'In the later 1950s Sutherland began progressively to extend the range of his animal themes, and he painted several pictures of bats and toads, as well as a heron and an eagle. The bat is seen hanging upside-down. Sutherland made his studies of bats in the natural history museum at Nice'.

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