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

The present work is an especially ordered, symmetrical version of the lane entrance motif, and formed the basis for a larger work on paper Entrance to Lane with Interlacing Foliage (present whereabouts unknown, see D. Cooper, Graham Sutherland, London, 1961, pl. 68c). The perspectival clarity of the composition also recalls contemporary pictures such as Landscape with Rocks, 1945 (Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum). Bold drawings and brushmarks co-exist in Lane Entrance, as in many such small-scale Sutherlands, with the fastidious squaring up in pencil that Sutherland subsequently applied in order to transfer his idea from a sketchbook to a larger format.

We are very grateful to Martin Hammer for providing the catalogue entries for lots 67, 74 and 112.