Rock and Hills

Details

Graham Sutherland, O.M. (1903-1980)
Rock and Hills
signed and dated 'Sutherland 1944' (lower left)
gouache, pen, black ink, watercolour and chalk
11½ x 14½ in. (29.2 x 36.8 cm.)

Provenance

with Redfern Gallery, London, March 1955.

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Lot Essay

In August 1944 Sutherland and his wife went to Pembrokeshire, staying first with John Craxton and Lucien Freud at the Mariner's Arms in Haverfordwest, and then retreating to a cottage at Sandy Haven. This trip inspired a whole series of drawings and paintings based around a dried-out tree stump in a glowing, invented landscape. Within this series the artist explores the idea of giving the landscape forms a figurative significance, the landscape being a metaphor for the human, probably female, body.

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