Graham Sutherland OM

Sketchbook 23

1952–3

Graham Sutherland OM, ‘South of France landscape with tall trees, including palm trees’ 1952–3 — © The estate of Graham Sutherland

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Created by: Graham Sutherland OM 1903–1980
Title: Sketchbook 23
Date: 1952–3
Description: Chalk, crayon, pastel, ink, and watercolour on paper, 17 pages, 24 pages and covers are missing, 388 x 295 mm

Most of the drawings in this sketchbook are studies for standing forms or heads of 1952-1953; the others include two sketches for 'Cynocéphale I' 1952 and a landscape with trees. An early study for seated figure of Christ in the Coventry tapestry may have been offprinted from one of the sheets which are now missing.
Format: Bound volume - sketchbook
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented by Mrs Kathleen Sutherland, the artist's widow, in 1981.
Reference: TGA 812/23

Neo-romanticism

Archive context

Collection of forty sketchbooks and fragments of sketchbooks TGA 812 (40)

Sketchbook 23 TGA 812/23

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