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Graham Sutherland OM

Sketchbook 15

[c.1947–50]

Sketch of a standing man in a turning and twisting position

Created by
Graham Sutherland OM 1903–1980
Date
[c.1947–50]
Medium
Pencil on paper
Dimensions
215 × 140 mm
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Created by
Graham Sutherland OM 1903–1980
Title
Sketchbook 15
Date
[c.1947–50]
Format
Bound volume - sketchbook
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
Presented by Mrs Kathleen Sutherland, the artist's widow, in 1981.
Reference
TGA 812/15

Description

Graphite, chalk, crayon, watercolour, and oil on paper, 69 pages, 9 pages and covers are missing, 215 × 140 mm

This sketchbook includes more than twenty drawings of Kathleen Sutherland seated in a variety of positions. It seems more than likely that these drawings were made when Sutherland was experimenting and thinking how to paint his first portrait; as this would explain the inclusion of copies of several portrait heads by Picasso, exemplifying an alternative approach.
There are also drawings with nature themes in this sketchbook, which range in date from 1947-1951, and two drawings for the Somerset Maugham portrait of 1949.

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Cubism Neo-Romanticism

Archive context

  • Collection of forty sketchbooks and fragments of sketchbooks TGA 812 (40)
    • Sketchbook 15 TGA 812/15
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