Road near Crickhowell

Details

GRAHAM SUTHERLAND, O.M. (1903-1980)
Road near Crickhowell
signed and dated 'Sutherland 1940' (upper right)
ink and gouache on paper
5 1⁄2 x 4 3⁄4 in. (14 x 12 cm.)
Executed in 1940.

Provenance

Picton Castle, Haverfordwest.
Acquired from Thomas Agnew & Sons, London in July 1987.

Literature

Sutherland in Wales: a catalogue of the collection at the Graham Sutherland Gallery, Picton Castle, Haverfordwest, Uxbridge, 1976, p. 34, no. D34.

Exhibited

London, Olympia Fine Arts and Antiques Fair, Graham Sutherland, February - March 2003, no. GS-159.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Graham Sutherland was so moved by his time in Wales, that he bequeathed a number of works to a dedicated Sutherland Trust in 1976, held at Picton Castle, Pembrokeshire, where he specified the paintings be seen in the place which had inspired them.

Sir Nicholas Goodison commented: ‘The winding disappearing lane was a preoccupation in the late 1930s of both Sutherland and John Craxton, who painted with him in Pembrokeshire. Sometimes there is a solitary figure, but in this case the lane is deserted, suggesting even greater mystery.’

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