1969
Edition Size: 300 plus 25 artist's proofs
Image Size: 65 x 50 cm
Sheet Size: 65 x 50 cm
Reference: Tassi page 220
Signed
Condition: Excellent
This version is one of the signed artist’s proofs, the signature in the rh of the sheet in pencil. The work was printed on BFK Rives watermarked paper in four colours by Ateliers des Impressions Artistiques, Nice. Tassi: not illustrated, but referred to on page 220 of the cat rais. Unframed. This work is often referred to as Beetle ii… but this is a separate and significantly different work, dating from 1968. (Tassi 83)
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British artist Graham Sutherland who worked with both glass and fabric to create prints and portraits. His core inspirations included religion (he designed the giant central tapestry for in the rebuild of Coventry Cathedral) and the works of Paul Nash, Samuel Palmer and Pablo Picasso. Working initially in watercolour and later oils, Sutherland spent the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s painting romantic, sometimes surreal British landscapes – one of his favourite places to paint was the Pembrokeshire coast, calling it the place he “began to learn painting”.
