Modern British and Irish Art Evening Auction
Modern British and Irish Art Evening Auction
Property of the Ogilvy Family
Study of Sir Winston Churchill
Auction Closed
June 6, 05:43 PM GMT
Estimate
500,000 - 800,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property of the Ogilvy Family
Graham Sutherland
1903 - 1980
Study of Sir Winston Churchill
signed SUTHERLAND and dated 1954 (upper left)
oil on canvas
unframed: 61 by 51cm.; 24 by 20in.
framed: 77.5 by 67cm.; 30½ by 26¼in.
Executed in 1954.
Graham Sutherland, by whom gifted to Alfred Hecht
Bequeathed by the above to the present owners upon his death in 1991
Douglas Cooper, The Work of Graham Sutherland, Lund Humphries, London, 1961, no. 168, pp. 58-9
John Hayes, The Art of Graham Sutherland, Last Century Books, Innerleithen 1980, no. 104, illustrated p. 134-5
Rosalind Thuillier, Graham Sutherland, Inspirations, 1982, Lutterworth Press, Guildford, illustrated fig. 94, p. 94
Dalya Alberge, 'Study for "Loathed" Sutherland Portrait of Churchill on show', in The Times, 8 April 2004
Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Graham Sutherland, 1965, no. 98, illustrated in the exh. cat.
Basel, Kunsthalle, Graham Sutherland, February - March 1966, no. 87, illustrated in the exh. cat.
London, National Portrait Gallery, Portraits by Graham Sutherland, 24 June - 16 October 1977, no. 48, illustrated in the exh. cat.
London, The Tate Gallery, Graham Sutherland, 1982, no. 181, illustrated in the exh. cat.
London, Portcullis House, April 2004 (on loan)
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