Live Auction 742420th Century British Art
Graham Sutherland, O.M. (1903-1980)
Lot 80 VARIOUS PROPERTIES

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

Tourette

Closed16 November 2007

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GBP 31,700

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Graham Sutherland, O.M. (1903-1980)
Tourette
signed, inscribed and dated 'Tourettes/1947 Sutherland' (lower left)
pencil, chalk, watercolour and bodycolour
15 x 17½ in. (38 x 44.5 cm.)

with Galeria Il Capricorno, Venice.
with Rex Evans Gallery, Los Angeles.
Professor Bruno, February 1973.
Purchased by the present owner in Belgium, 1990.

Specialist note

The present work is a study for the oil of the same title painted in 1948. Sutherland discovered the landscape around Tourette-sur-Loup, not far from Vence, whilst exploring the Riviera with Francis Bacon. The rocks and grasses of a dried-up river bed were to be a fruitful source of ideas. The same landscape was to be one of the inspirations, in 1950, for his monumental canvas Origins of the Land (Tate, London).