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WORKS ON PAPER FROM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AVANT-GARDES The Collection of a Scholar, Sold to Benefit Humanitarian Causes

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

Study for `Entrance to a Lane'; Study for `Entrance to a Lane'

Details

Graham Sutherland, O.M. (1903-1980)
Study for 'Entrance to a Lane'; Study for 'Entrance to a Lane'
both: gouache, India ink and pencil on cardboard
(i) 6 x 5 ¾ in. (15.3 x 14.5 cm.)
(ii) 6 5/8 x 5 ½ in. (16.8 x 14 cm.)
Executed circa 1945
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Provenance

Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London (nos. GS 93a & GS 93b).
Galleria Gissi, Turin (nos. 1920 & 1921).
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

STUDIES FROM IMPORTANT BODIES OF WORK
BY GRAHAM SUTHERLAND

The four works by Sutherland included in this collection (lots 141-142, 181-182) represent several dominant motifs the artist adopted from the late-1930s into the early 1950s, during the Second World War and in its aftermath. All but one of these motifs are represented by important oil paintings which inhabit prominent public art collections: Cactus from 1950 at the University of Michigan Art Museum see lot 181), Thorn Trees from 1945 in the Collection of the British Council (see lot 182), Entrance to a Lane from 1939 residing at the Tate, London (see lot 141).

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