Sea Objects, 1947
watercolour, gouache, chalk and pencil on paper, on card
23.3 x 29.5 cm
9 1/8 x 11 5/8 in
9 1/8 x 11 5/8 in
signed and dated in pencil; titled on gallery label attached verso
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Further images
Graham Sutherland's post-war painting has a clarity and colour sensibility all his own. Rising from the Artist's interest in natural found objects, this is from a group of paintings exploring...
Graham Sutherland's post-war painting has a clarity and colour sensibility all his own. Rising from the Artist's interest in natural found objects, this is from a group of paintings exploring the subject that Sutherland created during his first visit to the south of France in 1947. From then on, he travelled and worked in the French Riviera for an increasing part of the year, before buying an Eileen Gray-designed villa in Menton in 1955. The novel light, landscape and vegetation all engendered a brilliance of colour and definition that is instantly recognisable in the work of this period. For another example, see Pallant House Gallery's 'Landscape' or the British Council's 'Pink Vine Pergola' and 'Palm on Wall' (https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/landscape-in-the-south-of-france-70694; https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/pink-vine-pergola-176965).
Provenance
acquired by a private collector, Germany, from Redfern Gallery, London, in 1953, and thence by descent.1
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