Graham Sutherland
Welsh Landscape "Entrance to a Lane", 1945
Ink and gouache on thick wove card
Approximately 8 x 10.5 in. (20 x 27 cm.)
£14000.00
Sutherland first visited Pembrokeshire in 1934 and recalled being fascinated by “the deep green valleys and the rounded hills and the whole structure, simple and complex” and felt that he...
Sutherland first visited Pembrokeshire in 1934 and recalled being fascinated by “the deep green valleys and the rounded hills and the whole structure, simple and complex” and felt that he was “as much part of the earth as my features were part of me”.
This work is reminiscent of both Gorse on a Sea Wall and Entrance to a Lane, both of 1939, and has a wonderfully strong structure and colouration.
Literature
Literature:
Graham Sutherland, Storia Segreta, 1922-1979, G. Bruni, Edizioni Colombo, cat.100, pg.86 (ill.).