Sutherland (Graham Vivian)
Michaelmas,
£3,300
, Twenty-One Gallery, 1928.
Graham Sutherland (1903-1980) studied etching under Frederick Griggs, working in an accomplished style in the pastoral tradition of William Blake and Samuel Palmer. This formed the basis of his early commercial success in the 1920s, selling to both British and American buyers. This plate from 1928, published by the Twenty-One Gallery for the Print Collectors’ Club, still epitomises this early style with its solitary figure returning to darkened farm cottage, guided by crepuscular starlight as a flock of birds recede towards the disappearing sun. The Wall Street Crash of 1929 significantly disrupted the market, and cast a long shadow over the world. Sutherland’s subsequent style took on a darker, more brooding air, and echoes of the more surreal forms of De Chirico and Nash that paved the way for his later work.
Provenance: ex-collection of Mattei Radev (1927-2009), inherited from Eardley Knollys (1902-1991), artist, critic, and art dealer, member of the Bloomsbury Group, who purchased it from Sotheby’s, February, 1970..
85 by 70mm (3¼ by 2¾ inches).
etching on old laid paper with a partial Britannia watermark, signed in pencil, lower right, from an overall edition of 109 in three states, faint old horizontal lines ruled in upper and lower margins, an old loss to the lower right edge of this relatively large sheet (200 x 155mm), well outside the plate, [M.29; Tassi 25],
| Dimensions | 857032 cm |
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| Dimensions | 85 by 70mm (3¼ by 2¾ inches). |
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