You want to be alarmed for any new work by this artist ? Enter your email address to get an alarm
Graham Sutherland
"In Provence, I suddenly felt a great excitement for the painting of Cezanne and Van Gogh."
+ Stamp
Stamp by Graham Sutherland
fictional stamp
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stamps
+ Autograph
Original photography and dedication
Private collection / These documents are not for sale.
+ Listen
Listen
+ Watch
Watch
+ A tribute to...
See all the tribute pages...
A tribute to Graham Sutherland
Sorry this section is only available in french for now.
Graham Sutherland a 76 ans lorsqu’il s’éteint le 17 février 1980 à Londres. Après un office religieux à la Roman Catholic Seminary de West Malling (l’artiste s’est convertit au catholisisme en 1926 et sera profondément impliqué dans la religion jusqu’à sa mort), il est inhumé au cimetière de Trottiscliffe (Kent, Angleterre). En hommage à sa mémoire, une rose.
"Graham Sutherland ou la menace de plus en plus terrifiante des symboles." - Herbert Read
"Tout ce qui est tortueux dans la nature lui est une douce caresse." - Henri Michaux
"Sutherland nous communique sa propre exaltation dans la forme la plus intense qu’il puisse concevoir." - Sir Philipp Hendy
"Graham Sutherland apparaît comme un cas isolé, ni figuratif, ni surréaliste, ni abstrait ; il ne se situe dans aucun courant identifiable, bien que les traversant épisodiquement." - Jacques Busse
"Sutherland, c’est l’œil perçant, fouillant, brûlant d’une fièvre amoureuse, saisissant l’essentiel traverse jusqu’au caché de nous-mêmes que nous avions cru inviolable !" - Emile Marzé
"Lui demandant quel est le plus grand peintre anglais, tout en sachant que c’était lui, mon ami Graham me répondit : « C’est un homme extraordinaire dont tu n’as jamais entendu parlé. Il passe son temps au Casino de Monte Carlo, peint et généralement détruit ce qu’il a peint. » " - Lucian Freud
Notes of biography
Graham Vivian Sutherland is born during the summer of 1903 in London. After his studies in this city, he becomes an engineer for an English railway company (Midland Railway) in Derby. He studies engraving (1921-26) at Goldsmiths College, and gets married in 1927. From 1928 until 1932, Graham Sutherland teaches etching and book illustration. Influenced by Samuel Palmer, his early engravings show a concern for a pastoral theme.
Because of the collapse of the market for engraving due to the Great Depression, Graham Sutherland starts to paint "seriously" at the age of about 35. His work shows a great affinity with that of Paul Nash. Sutherland is interested in the inherent strangeness of forms, and his work takes a Surrealist turn. In 1936, he is among the artists invited to the International Surrealist Exhibition of London.
He creates works on glass, fabric design, and posters, and teaches in several universities of art in London. In 1934, his first visit to Pembrokeshire leaves him, for a time, inspired by neo-romanticism. From the beginning of the Second World War, Graham Sutherland works as an official “war painter”: he works on the front, his paintings illustrating the war and its damages.
The artist, who converted to Catholicism in 1926, becomes deeply involved in his religion at the beginning of the 1950’s (and remains so until the end of his life). He creates numerous religious works (“The Crucifixion” for St. Matthew’s at Northampton and “Christ in Glory”, a tapestry for Coventry Cathedral, among others). He continues to work with natural forms; often regarded as threathening, these forms, sometimes entirely invented, are organic in appearance.
From 1947 until the middle of the 1960’s, his work is inspired by the south of France, where he takes a residence (Menton) in 1955. His art will have an enormous impact on a generation of English artists in the Sixties. Graham Sutherland is also known for his portraits (Somerset Maugham, Winston Churchill, and so forth). He dies on 17 February 1980.
His work will have been exhibited at the Venice Biennale (1952) and at the Biennale of San Paolo (1955). Many retrospective exhibitions of his work will be organised: France (1988), Tate Gallery (1982), Dulwich Picture Gallery (2005). A follower of no formal school, Sutherland is considered a master of a style that is entirely his own.
Artists on display
The art and the artists display: proclamations, galleries, museums, personal or collective exhibitions. On walls or in shop windows, wise or rebels, posters warn, argue, show. Some were specially conceived by an artist for such or such event, other, colder, have only the letter.
Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.
Complete work(s)
Complete work(s)
*« The work », D. Cooper, Lund & Humphries Publishers, Londres, 1962 *« G. Sutherland: Complete graphic work », Graham Vivian Sutherland, Rizzoli Publ., 1979
*« L'oeuvre gravé », Roberto Tassi et E. Quinn, Ediciones Poligrafia - Société française du Livre, Paris, 1980
Bibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- « Graham Sutherland », E. Sackville-West, Ed. Penguin Books, 1943
- « The work of Sutherland », Lund Humphries, 1962
- « Art of Graham Sutherland », John Hayes, Phaidon - Hippocrene Books, 1980
- « Graham Sutherland: A Biography », Roger Berthoud, Faber and Faber, 1982
- « Graham Sutherland : Inpirations », Rosalind Thuillier, Ed. Lutterworth Press, 1982
- « Graham Sutherland, early etchings », Ed. Gordon Cooke, 1993
- « Sutherland, une rétrospective », M. Fréchuret et autres, Ed. R.M.N, 1998
- « Landscapes, War scenes, Portraits, 1924-1950 », M. Hammer, Scala Publ., 2005
- « Graham Sutherland : From darkness into light », Gough et autres, Ed. Sansom, 2014
- « Graham Sutherland : Life, work and ideas », R. Thuillier, Ed. Lutterworth Press, 2015
To read from the artist :
- « Graham Sutherland », Graham Vivian Sutherland, H.N. Abrams, 1975
- « G. Sutherland : An unfinished world », G. Shaw et autres, Ed. Modern Art Oxford, 2011
Website :
artcyclopedia.com/artists/sutherlandMore :
+ Stamp
Stamp by Graham Sutherland
fictional stamp
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stamps
+ Autograph
Original photography and dedication
Private collection / These documents are not for sale.
+ Listen
Listen
+ Watch
Watch
+ A tribute to...
See all the tribute pages...
A tribute to Graham Sutherland
Sorry this section is only available in french for now.
Graham Sutherland a 76 ans lorsqu’il s’éteint le 17 février 1980 à Londres. Après un office religieux à la Roman Catholic Seminary de West Malling (l’artiste s’est convertit au catholisisme en 1926 et sera profondément impliqué dans la religion jusqu’à sa mort), il est inhumé au cimetière de Trottiscliffe (Kent, Angleterre). En hommage à sa mémoire, une rose.
"Graham Sutherland ou la menace de plus en plus terrifiante des symboles." - Herbert Read
"Tout ce qui est tortueux dans la nature lui est une douce caresse." - Henri Michaux
"Sutherland nous communique sa propre exaltation dans la forme la plus intense qu’il puisse concevoir." - Sir Philipp Hendy
"Graham Sutherland apparaît comme un cas isolé, ni figuratif, ni surréaliste, ni abstrait ; il ne se situe dans aucun courant identifiable, bien que les traversant épisodiquement." - Jacques Busse
"Sutherland, c’est l’œil perçant, fouillant, brûlant d’une fièvre amoureuse, saisissant l’essentiel traverse jusqu’au caché de nous-mêmes que nous avions cru inviolable !" - Emile Marzé
"Lui demandant quel est le plus grand peintre anglais, tout en sachant que c’était lui, mon ami Graham me répondit : « C’est un homme extraordinaire dont tu n’as jamais entendu parlé. Il passe son temps au Casino de Monte Carlo, peint et généralement détruit ce qu’il a peint. » " - Lucian Freud
Art movements
+ SCHOOL OF LONDON / 1960 / Lucian Freud, Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff, etc.
All art movements
See & discover
Beyond works currently in stock, it seemed to me useful to combine business with pleasure by letting you discover others works by artists in my gallery. These artworks, now sold or removed from our website, have been in our stock in the past.
These pages will undoubtedly make it possible for some of you to associate an image with its title or the other way round, for others it will be a good time to discover more on such and such artist. For the sake of confidentiality – the pieces being no longer available – we won't display neither their numbering or their price. For whatever reason, make sure to visit this amazing art database with to date 6441 online works just for your pleasure! Michelle Champetier
See & discover