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Study for 'Origins of Land' (recto)
Maker
(Artists)
1903-1980
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)
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
Keywords
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
The Hunter Collection of Twentieth Century Masters, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 10/10/1987-03/06/1988
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