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Graham Sutherland, O.M. (1903-1982)
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Graham Sutherland, O.M. (1903-1982)

Study, Tin Mine: View Down a Stope

細節
Graham Sutherland, O.M. (1903-1982)
Study, Tin Mine: View Down a Stope
pencil, ink, chalk, watercolour and bodycolour, lightly squared for transfer
13½ x 20 in. (34.3 x 50.8 cm.)
Executed in June 1942.
出版
R. Tassi, Sutherland the Wartime Drawings, London, 1980, p. 79, no. 64, illustrated.
展覽
London, Graham Sutherland, Olympia Loan Exhibition, February - March 2003, no. GS 187.
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拍品專文

Sutherland's next assignment from the War Artist's Advisory Committee after the steelworks of Cardiff [see lot 196] was three weeks spent underground in the Cornish tin-mines. It was during this time that he wrote to Sir Kenneth Clark of a subterranean world of 'such beauty and such mystery' that he would never forget it; he found it 'stupendous and thrilling to a degree' (see M. Yorke, The Spirit of Place, Nine Neo-Romantic Artists and their times, London, 1988, p. 126).

In the present work, Sutherland depicts a view down a stope [the working area of the mine]. He was extraordinarily moved by the variety of shapes, colours and textures of the mine, and within Study, Tin-mine: View Down a Stope, Sutherland has carefully orchestrated a variety of media - ink, pencil, chalk and gouache - to suggest the organic textures he found there.