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Study for 'Origins of Land' (recto)

Maker

(Artists)
1903-1980

Title

Study for 'Origins of Land' (recto)

Date of Production

1950

Medium

graphite & bodycolour & wax crayon (recto)

Dimensions

Height: 53.6 cm (board)
Width: 67.5 cm (board)

Accession Number

P.1984.AH.425

Mode of Acquisition

Mark Ian Alastair Hunter, bequest, 1984

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

© The estate of Graham Sutherland

Location

Not currently on display

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Label Text

This is a preliminary study for a painting commissioned for the Festival of Britain of 1951. Sutherland later described the painting: ‘Broadly speaking the picture is divided as if in sections through the crust of the earth. You will notice the layers one on top of the other. It is as if you were looking at a cliff face.’ The small strip at the top shows the earth’s surface with the sun. Its relationship with the great mass of accumulated earth and fossils below contrasts the present and the past.

Provenance

Hunter Bequest 1984

Exhibition History

20th century British Art, Courtauld Gallery Room 11, 10/12/2022-07/05/2024

The Hunter Collection of Twentieth Century Masters, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 10/10/1987-03/06/1988

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