inscribed ‘Double perspective in mine. figure appearing from left. tunnel RH leading to shaft.’ and ‘View down a stope’
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Tin Mine, Various Aspects, 1942
Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist by the previous owner
Exhibition History:
London, Imperial War Museum, The War Drawings, 1982 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, no. 64);
Woking, The Lightbox, The Ingram Collection: The Impact of War, 15 October 2014 – 4 January 2015;
Woking, The Lightbox, John Minton and the Romantic Tradition, 28 January 2017 – 9 March 2017;
Kendal, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Land | Sea | Life: A British Art Collection, 20 October 2017 – 17 February 2018;
Woking, The Lightbox, NightShaking with The Ingram Collection, 10 July – 19 September 2021
Literature:
R. Tassi, Sutherland Disegni de guerra, Electa Milano, 1979 (illustrated, no. 65, p. 76);
Sutherland, The Wartime Drawings, Electa International, 1980 (illustrated, no. 65, p. 80)
The War Artists’ Advisory Committee assigned Graham Sutherland to three weeks spent underground in the Cornish tin-mines in 1942. Sutherland was moved by the variety of shapes, colours and textures of the mines. He wrote to Sir Kenneth Clark that he found this subterranean world ‘stupendous and thrilling’.
