Graham SUTHERLAND, OM (1903 - 1980)
Thorn Trees, 1945
Oil on canvas
50 x 40 inches / 127 x 101.5 cm
Signed upper right
Provenance:
British Council Collection
Selected Exhibitions:
Treasure Island: British Art from Holbein to Hockney, Madrid, Fundacion Juan,
March 2012
Passports: Great Early Buys From The British Council Collection, London, Whitechapel
Art Gallery, 2009
From Destruction To Abstraction British Art In The 1940s And 1950s, Damascus,
University Of Damascus, 2008
Graham Sutherland Landscapes, War Scenes, Portraits 1924-1950, Nottingham,
Djanogly Art Gallery, 2005
Blast To Freeze: Britische Kunst Im 20. Jahrhundert, Toulouse, Les Abattoirs, 2003 and Germany, Wolfsburg Kunstmuseum, 2002
Sutherland Une Retrospective, Antibes, Picasso Museum, 1998, cat. no.61, ill. in col
Herbert Read A British Vision Of World Art, Leeds City Art Gallery, 1993
Home And Abroad An Exhibition Of Recent Acquisitions For The Arts Council and the British Council Collections, London, Serpentine Gallery, 1984
Graham Sutherland, London, Tate Gallery, 1982, ill. in colour, pl. no.125, full
front cover (detail)
Ix Biennale Internationale D'art, France, Menton, Palais De l'europe, 1972
Expo '70, Japan, Tokyo, 1970
Graham Sutherland, Germany, Munich, Haus Der Kunst, 1967
Graham Sutherland, Italy, Galleria Civica D'arte Moderno, Torino & Switzerland, Basel, Kunsthalle, 1965-1966, cat. no.47, ill. in b/w p.125
British Painting 1720-1960, Russia, St. Petersburg, The Hermitage, Moscow, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, 1960
Graham Sutherland, Ireland, Belfast Museum And Art Gallery, 1959
Fourth International Exhibition Of Contemporary Art, Japan, Tokyo, Metropolitan Art Gallery, 1957
1955 Sao Paulo Bienal, Museu De Arte Moderna, Brazil, 1955
XVII Venice Biennale, Venice, British Pavilion travelled to Paris, Musée D'art Moderne De La Ville De Paris, Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Zurich, Kunsthaus, 1952-1953
Contemporary Painting In Great Britain, Germany, Dusseldorf, Hetjens Museum travelled
to Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Brussels, Palais Des Beaux-Arts De Bruxelles, Luxembourg, Musee De L'etat, 1948
La Jeune Peinture En Grande Bretagne, Greece, Athens, British Institute travelled to France, British Council Office – Paris, 1948-1948
Exposition Internationale De Peintures Modernes, France, Paris, Musée National D'art Moderne, 1946
Literature:
Graham Sutherland, Inspiration, Rosalind Thuillier, Lutterworth Press, England, 1982,ill.
in b/w no.56, p.60
The Works of Graham Sutherland, Douglas Cooper, Lund Humphries, 1961, ill. in b/w, pl.81
Graham Sutherland, A Biography, Roger Berthoud, Faber and Faber, ill. in b/w
Graham Sutherland, Life, works and Ideas, Rosalind Thuillier, Lutterworth Press,
England, 2015, ill. in b/w, p.87