The Captive - Animal form

Details

Graham Sutherland, O.M. (1903-1980)
The Captive - Animal form
signed and dated 'G. Sutherland/1963' (lower left) and dedicated indistinctly 'A.H. G.S./5.12.64' (lower left)
watercolour, bodycolour and pastel
10½ x 9½ in. (26.7 x 24 cm.)

Provenance

A gift from the artist to Alfred Hecht.
Alfred Hecht; Sotheby's, London, 25 March 1992, lot 84.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 17 November 2006, lot 83, where purchased by the present owner.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This work is a study for an oil painting that Sutherland painted after visiting Venice and had seen the reliefs on the façade of the Ospedale di San Marco. In a film of 1969 he explained, 'I am specially fascinated by the panels of the lions with the false perspective of trompe l'oeil, and I sometimes feel a little bit like Cézanne with regard to Poussin ... I must have been influenced by these two panels when I painted two pictures of animals in space, in a particular space: one was a prisoner ...' (see exhibition catalogue, Sutherland, London, Tate, 1982, p. 150).

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