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Graham sutherland painter1/9/2024 ![]() ![]() Chief among them were the Russian-born trio of Eugène Berman and his brother Leonid, and Pavel Tchelitchew. Their brooding often nostalgic work quickly became labelled neo-romantic. The term is also applied to a group of figurative painters working in Paris in the early 1920s. Graham Vivian Sutherland Died: FebruKent, United Kingdom Nationality: British Art Movement: Surrealism, Neo-Romanticism Field: painting. Also the graphic work of Henry Moore of the period, especially his drawings of war-time air-raid shelters. SUTHERLAND’ Presented anonymously 1970 Provenance: Acquired from the artist by Paul Rosenberg & Co. The Portrait of Winston Churchill was a painting by English artist Graham Sutherland that depicted the British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, created in 1954. The term sometimes embraces Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde, and the early work of Lucian Freud. Graham Sutherland 1903-80 Hydrant II 1954 T01217 Oil on canvas 1118 x 905 (44 x 35 5/8) Inscribed on back of canvas in grey paint ‘HYDRANT II (OIL) 1954 G. From 1940 to 1945 he was an official war artist, and his paintings from that period provide a factual and evocative record of desolation. It was partly inspired by the visionary landscapes of Samuel Palmer and The Ancients, partly by a more general emotional response to the British landscape and its history.Īs well as Paul Nash and Graham Sutherland, other major neo-romantics were Michael Ayrton, John Craxton, Ivon Hitchens, John Minton, John Piper, Keith Vaughan. He was apprenticed as an engineer before studying engraving at Goldsmiths College in London. He turned primarily to painting in 1935 and was represented in the 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition in London. The present work is a key piece in Sutherlands development as a painter and its importance is partly demonstrated by the number of exhibitions worldwide in which it has been. ![]() 290: this exhibition travelled to Darmstadt, Ausstellungshallen Mathildenhöhe, August - September 1982. The work of these artists often included figures, was generally sombre, reflecting the Second World War and its approach and aftermath, but rich, poetic and capable of a visionary intensity. London, Tate Gallery, Graham Sutherland, May - July 1982, no. ![]()
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