Modern British and Irish Art Evening Auction

Modern British and Irish Art Evening Auction

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Property of the Ogilvy Family

Graham Sutherland

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)