Green Tree Form

© estate of Graham Sutherland. Image credit: British Council Collection

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This work was painted in Pembrokeshire in Wales. Sutherland first visited Wales in 1934 and returned at regular intervals throughout the decade. It was here that he began to be aware of the landscape; at first attempting to paint on the spot but abandoning this for small sketches made on the back of envelopes or in a small sketchbook of forms that he found of interest and which would nourish his ideas. He began to see a kind of presence in certain natural elements and endowed them with human overtones.

British Council Collection

London

Title

Green Tree Form

Date

1940

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 60.5 x W 54.5 cm

Accession number

P177

Acquisition method

purchased from Redfern Gallery, 1950

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

blc: Sutherland 40

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British Council Collection

British Council, 1 Redman Place, London, Greater London E20 1JQ England

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