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- Created by
- Graham Sutherland OM 1903–1980
- Title
- Sketchbook 31
- Date
- [c.1959–61]
- Description
- Graphite, crayon, chalk, pastel, watercolour, and oil on paper, 58 pages, 4 pages and back cover are missing, 268 x 208 mm
This sketchbook contains a series of drawings of the interior of a room in Sutherland's house at Menton, the Villa Blanche, looking out through the tall windows. There are also several studies for the portraits of Max Egon, Prinz von Furstenberg (painted 1958-90) and Arpad Plesch (1961), and for such pictures as 'The Pine' 1959 and 'The Scales' 1961. - Format
- Bound volume - sketchbook
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented by Mrs Kathleen Sutherland, the artist's widow, in 1981.
- Reference
- TGA 812/31
Archive context
- Collection of forty sketchbooks and fragments of sketchbooks TGA 812 (40)
- Sketchbook 31 TGA 812/31
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