Study for 'Entrance to a Lane'

Details

GRAHAM SUTHERLAND, O.M. (1903-1980)
Study for 'Entrance to a Lane'
signed with initials and dated 'G.S 1939' (upper left)
watercolour, gouache, ink and pencil on paper
7 7⁄8 x 8 1⁄8 in. (20 x 20.6 cm.)
Executed in 1939.

Provenance

The Rev. Walter Hussey.
with Marlborough Fine Art, London.
Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 15 March 2016, lot 120, where purchased by the present owner.

Exhibited

Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Sutherland, October - November 1965, pp. 58-9, no. 14, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

The present drawing is a study for Graham Sutherland's painting Entrance to a Lane (Tate, London). Sutherland later identified the location on which the painting is based as a lane on the west bank of Sandy Haven, off the Milford Haven estuary in south-west Wales, an area of Pembrokeshire that Sutherland visited regularly between 1934 and 1946.

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