Insect - Graham Sutherland
Hand signed and numbered in pencil
Lithograph in colours
Edition number 16/65
1963
Sheet 50 x 65cm
Printed by Emil Matthieu, Published by Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich (with blind stamp)
Framed and mounted in white wood frame
A vibrant, large-scale lithograph by one of the central pillars of the post-war art world - Graham Sutherland. This print is framed and mounted beautifully, all in white, allowing the colours in the print to truly sing.
The sheet itself is in very good condition with only slight ageing/yellowing of the natural white tone of the paper. There are no visible tears, scratches or creases.
Hand signed and numbered in pencil
Lithograph in colours
Edition number 16/65
1963
Sheet 50 x 65cm
Printed by Emil Matthieu, Published by Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich (with blind stamp)
Framed and mounted in white wood frame
A vibrant, large-scale lithograph by one of the central pillars of the post-war art world - Graham Sutherland. This print is framed and mounted beautifully, all in white, allowing the colours in the print to truly sing.
The sheet itself is in very good condition with only slight ageing/yellowing of the natural white tone of the paper. There are no visible tears, scratches or creases.
Hand signed and numbered in pencil
Lithograph in colours
Edition number 16/65
1963
Sheet 50 x 65cm
Printed by Emil Matthieu, Published by Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich (with blind stamp)
Framed and mounted in white wood frame
A vibrant, large-scale lithograph by one of the central pillars of the post-war art world - Graham Sutherland. This print is framed and mounted beautifully, all in white, allowing the colours in the print to truly sing.
The sheet itself is in very good condition with only slight ageing/yellowing of the natural white tone of the paper. There are no visible tears, scratches or creases.
Graham Vivian Sutherland (1903-1980) was born in Streatham, London, U.K.
Sutherland attended Epsom School and then studied art at Goldsmith’s School of Art (1921-26) where he quickly became a highly skilled etcher. While still a student, Sutherland established a reputation as a fine printmaker and commercial printmaking would become his main source of income throughout the late 1920s. His work was shown for the first time in 1923 at the Royal Academy, London, where he exhibited frequently until 1929. He taught at the Chelsea School of Art in London from 1928 to 1939, and abandoned engraving for painting in the early 1930s. Later, as an official War Artist, Sutherland depicted bomb damage in London, but it was during the period after the war that his reputation really started to grow.
Sutherland developed an overriding interest in natural forms and the balance/battle dichotomy of the natural world. The menacing threat of the unknown and the alien permeates throughout his imagery; he grew a fascination with the tension between opposites: beauty and ugliness, friendliness and menace. These clashes were highlighted through the instinctive mark-making of his ambiguous organic forms alongside the strident colouring of his well-balanced compositions.
Graham Sutherland was awarded the Order of Merit in 1960 and died in London in 1980.