Lot 45
45
Graham Sutherland, O.M. (1903-1980)
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Graham Sutherland, O.M. (1903-1980)

Cypress Cones

Details
Graham Sutherland, O.M. (1903-1980)
Cypress Cones
signed and dated 'Sutherland.1956.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm.)
Executed in 1956.
Literature
Art News, LV, October 1956, p. 56.
D. Cooper, The World of Graham Sutherland, London, 1961, p. 82, no. 146, illustrated.
Exhibited
Paris, Salle Balzac, La Peinture Britannique Contemporaine, October 1957, no. 90.
London, Tate Gallery, Graham Sutherland, May - July 1982, no. 154.
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Lot Essay

Sutherland's purchase of the house at Menton in 1955 led to a preoccupation with Mediterranean motifs such as vine pergolas, palm palisades, insects and animals. He also picked up 'found objects' which, in his paintings, started sometimes to take on a more imaginative, metamorphic character. In the present work the cones seem to balance and hang, poised against the richly coloured orange and green background.

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