Graham Sutherland - Pembrokeshire Sketches

Graham Sutherland

PEMBROKESHIRE SKETCHES

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Graham Sutherland PEMBROKESHIRE SKETCHES c1970

Enchanting to me and exciting . . .

there is simply the fascination of things seen, and trying to understand the principles of what one sees.

Graham Sutherland on drawing, 1972

1. Estuary Edge with Path, pencil, 23 x 17.5 cm, £2750 front cover: 2. Rock Form II, pen, ink, watercolour and pencil,

17 x 28 cm,

£7500

Graham Sutherland From the 1940s onwards Graham Sutherland became known as one of the greatest twentieth century painters, initially as an official war artist and post-war with religious commissions (Crucifixion, St. Matthews northampton and Christ in Glory, Coventry Cathedral), portraits (Winston Churchill and Kenneth Clark) and landscapes.

The landscape of Pembrokeshire was a profound source of inspiration for Sutherland’s paintings and although he first visited the area in 1934 it was only from 1967, long after his international artistic reputation was

established, that he chose to return repeatedly over many years.

Something of what Sutherland felt about Pembrokeshire and its effect on his working methods can be gleaned from a letter he wrote in 1972: … I may go for a walk. There is everything around me. I look: certain things that one sees, almost by accident, seem to strike me more than others. Out of a thousand things I see – one juxtaposition of forms above all others seems to have a meaning. I don’t always understand what I am doing or what I am likely to do … my mind is receptive – but vacant.

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3. Estuary, Trees and Rocks,

pencil, 13 x 16.5 cm,

£1950

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4. Black Form on Green,

pen, ink watercolour and pencil, 20 x 15 cm,

£2250

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5. Boulders and Flame,

pencil, 11.5 x 17 cm,

ÂŁ1950

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6. Rock Pyramid,

pen, ink, watercolour and pencil, 23 x 17 cm,

£3500

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7. diverging Roads, Study II,

pencil and biro, 16.5 x 16.5 cm,

£2500

Graham Sutherland on Pembrokeshire The quality of the light here is magical and

transforming – as indeed it is in all this country.

Watching from the gloom as the sun’s rays strike the further bank, one has the sensation of the after

tranquillity of an explosion of light. Or as if one had looked back into the sun and had turned suddenly away.

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8. Estuary Approach,

pencil, 20 x 17 cm,

£2000

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9. Landscape Study III,

pencil and watercolour, 12.5 x 17 cm,

£2000

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10. Organic Rock Form,

pencil, 20 x 9 cm,

ÂŁ1600

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11. Rocky Path with Bridge,

pen, ink, watercolour and pencil, 23 x 34 cm,

£5000

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12. Rocks and Hillside, Study II,

pencil, 14 x 14 cm,

£1800

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13. Organic Form on Grey,

pencil and watercolour, 12.5 x 14 cm,

£2500

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14. Pyramid with Wooden Sticks,

pencil and watercolour, 23 x 29.5 cm,

ÂŁ10,000

What comes through Sutherland’s Pembrokeshire sketches, writes fellow landscape artist Rigby Graham,

is a continual nervous sense of Sutherland quietly questing, feeling his way into, around and beyond, near objects often

with distances or distant objects suggested. The subjects are roots, branches, rocks, hills, roadways, pathways, hedges,

walls, fences, occasionally cloud formations and flare-like shapes sometimes suggestive of one thing, sometimes

another. Parts of the small watercolour drawings are cast in shadow which conceals, while in others light flashes or illuminates an area.

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15. Tree Form,

pencil, 16.5 x 13 cm,

ÂŁ1600

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16. Trees and Rocks Study,

pen, ink, pencil and watercolour, 22 x 17 cm,

ÂŁ2750

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17. Twisted Tree Form,

pencil, 19.5 x 8.5 cm,

£1600

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18. Estuary with Cliff,

watercolour and gouache, 22.5 x 11.5 cm,

£3000

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19. Organic Form,

pencil, 16 x 13.5 cm,

ÂŁ1500

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20. Rocky Landscape,

pen, ink, watercolour and pencil, 18.5 x 16 cm,

£2750

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21. Last Morning, Picton,

pen, ink, wash and pencil, 22.5 x 17.5 cm,

ÂŁ1500

Mr Sutherland’s world is an unfinished thing, as though it had been

abandoned half way through the fifth day of creation. His shapes, for all their

subtlety, are clumsy. They suggest dinosaurs and mammoths. His hills heave themselves grimly against the sky. They are stark uncomfortable monsters made of raw earth and rock.

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