Welsh Landscape with Roads (1936)

Graham Vivian Sutherland

oil on canvas

Tate, London, Liverpool and St Ives

Classification:

Painting

Materials:

Oil, Canvas

Physical Object Description:

Inscribed in black paint ‘Graham Sutherland’ bottom left. Inscribed on back of canvas in pencil ‘Welsh Landscape’ running vertically at right, and on top selvage ‘Welsh Landscape’.Squared-up, presumably to aid in the translation of a smaller image. The pencil grid is numbered along the left-hand edge and, where the green glaze was applied over much of that side of the canvas, the pencil lines and digits have been re-drawn into the paint.

Dimensions:

61 x 91.4 cm

Accession Number:

N05666

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1946

Scheme:

Historic Purchase by Purchaser (1914-2008)

Ownership history:

Purchased from Rosenberg & Helft Galleries Ltd by The Hon. Jasper Nicholas Ridley (1887-1951) for the the Contemporary Art Society, 1938 (for £35); presented to Tate, 1946

Relationship:

The Hon. Jasper Nicholas Ridley Rosenberg & Helft, London Tate, London, Liverpool and St Ives

Subject:

Landscape

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