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Watercolour with brush and pen and ink, 25 by 20 cm (10 by 8 ins)

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Inscribed, dated (1973) and with a further study in pencil (verso)
On two sheets of joined paper
Watercolour and wash over pen and ink, 34 by 28 cm (13 by 11 ins)

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Watercolour over pen and ink and pencil, 17.5 by 22.5 cm

Provenance: acquired directly from the artist's studio by a private European collector

The present work is sold together with a photograph of the work certified by Sutherland's wife.

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Signed with initials and dated l.r.: GS/70

Gouache, 8 ¾ by 6 ½ ins (22 by 16.5 cm)

 

Provenance: acquired directly from the artist by friends and neighbours of Sutherland in France (early 1970s); sold Three artists: Sutherland, Piper and Moore Sale, Bonhams, Bond Street, Nov. 2006, part of lot 63                         

Comparisons can be made between this starkly graphic Sutherland study and his prints of insects and animals from the 1960s and 1970s. For a very close comparison and composition see pages from” The Blue Sketchbook”, sold at Sotheby’s Olympia, 23 November 2005, lot 212 and also dating from 1970.