Study for ‘Origins of Land’

© estate of Graham Sutherland. Image credit: The Courtauld

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This is a preliminary study for a painting commissioned for the Festival of Britain of 1951. Sutherland later described the painting: ‘Broadly speaking the picture is divided as if in sections through the crust of the earth. You will notice the layers one on top of the other. It is as if you were looking at a cliff face.’ The small strip at the top shows the earth’s surface with the sun. Its relationship with the great mass of accumulated earth and fossils below contrasts the present and the past.

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

London

Title

Study for ‘Origins of Land’

Date

1950

Medium

graphite, bodycolour & crayon on board

Measurements

H 53.6 x W 67.5 cm

Accession number

P.1984.AH.425

Acquisition method

bequeathed by Mark Ian Alastair Hunter, 1984

Work type

Drawing

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