Live Auction 12303Modern British & Irish Art
Graham Sutherland, O.M. (1903-1980)
Lot 16 PROPERTY OF THE VOLTAIRE FOUNDATION, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

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

Birds in Landscape

Closed17 March 2016

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Graham Sutherland, O.M. (1903-1980)
Birds in Landscape
signed and dated 'G. Sutherland. 1948' (lower right)
gouache on board
46 x 29 in. (117 x 73.5 cm.)

with Redfern Gallery, London, where purchased by Aubrey Gibson, August 1955.
with Agnew's, London.
Dr Theodore Besterman, by whom bequeathed to the Voltaire Foundation.

Specialist note

The present work relates to Sutherland's Birds and Foliage tapestry which he designed for the Edinburgh Tapestry Company in 1949.