‡Graham Vivian Sutherland OM (1903-1980) Turning Form I

‡Graham Vivian Sutherland OM (1903-1980)

Turning Form I, 1947-8

Watercolour, gouache and crayon

23 x 28cm

Provenance:

Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, November 1955No. 17175

Sotheby's, The Eye of the Collector, Works from the Collection of Stanley J. Seeger, 14 June 2001, Lot 70

Garton & Co., Devizes, Wiltshire, 12 May, 2002, No. 14412

The Collection of the late Dr. Peter Mangold

Exhibited:

Bucholz Gallery, New York, Graham Sutherland, 1948, No. 30

Princeton University art Museum, Stanley Seeger collection, 1961, No. 129

Literature:

Roger Berthoud, Graham Sutherland, a Biography, 1982 (pp. 133 & 139)

John Hayes, The Art of Graham Sutherland, 1980, Phaidon Press Ltd., New York, p.142 for a similar study and pl.50 for a similar print

This gouache was painted during the artist's time in southern France with Adrian Ryan and Eardley Knollys. Sutherland found the hot parched landscape to be a fruitful source of inspiration