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Graham Sutherland OM

Sketchbook 37

[c.1961–7]

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Created by
Graham Sutherland OM 1903–1980
Date
[c.1961–7]
Dimensions
241 × 170 mm
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Created by
Graham Sutherland OM 1903–1980
Title
Sketchbook 37
Date
[c.1961–7]
Format
Bound volume - sketchbook
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
Presented by Mrs Kathleen Sutherland, the artist's widow, in 1981.
Reference
TGA 812/37

Description

Graphite, pastel, chalk, ink, felt pen, and watercolour on paper, 49 pages plus covers, 1 page is missing, 241 × 170 mm

This sketchbook appears to have been used at intervals between 1961-65 as it includes studies both for the portrait of Dr Arpad Plesch, painted in 1961, and for 'The Captive' of 1963-1964 and 'Form on a Terrace' of 1965 (for instance). There is also a text consisting of draft answers to a questionnaire about his work, perhaps written as preparation for a BBC television profile, made in 1967, in which he was interviewed by Giorgio Soavi, or else for the guidance of Pier Paolo Ruggerini who made a film about him for Italian television in the same year.

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Impressionism Euston Road School Orientalism Baroque Expressionism Artists’ International Association Fauvism Objective Abstraction Dutch Golden Age painting

Archive context

  • Collection of forty sketchbooks and fragments of sketchbooks TGA 812 (40)
    • Sketchbook 37 TGA 812/37
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