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10. The Flea, Graham Sutherland, 1978, Tate

Purchased 1985 Size: image: 472 x 363 mm Medium: Etching and aquatint on paper

Three Standing Forms in a Garden, Graham Sutherland, 1951, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Paintings

Throughout his career, Graham Sutherland used semi-abstracted, haunting shapes that, like visual metaphors, designated completely different objects. The artist believed that art's duty was not to replicate the appearance of objects but to explain their essence through a substitution of forms. During one of the most powerful periods of his career (1949 - 1953), Sutherland created several highly sculptural, monumental standing forms that employed organic shapes to evoke the essence of the human figure. In Three Standing Forms in a Garden, some of the abstracted components employed by the artist are: bamboo roots for the lower part of the figure at left; a conical pillar of stacked corn for the trunk of the middle figure and gourds and hanging maize for the form at far right. Size: 52 1/2 x 45 1/2 in. (133.35 x 115.57 cm) (canvas) Medium: Oil on canvas

Graham Sutherland

Number Forty-Nine, 1924

La Foresta II, Graham Sutherland, 1971, Tate

Presented by the Institute of Contemporary Prints 1975 Size: image: 634 x 478 mm Medium: Lithograph on paper