© The artist's estate
Portrait study of W Somerset Maugham
Artist: Graham Sutherland (1903 - 1980)
Location: Royal Museum & Art Gallery
Date: 1949
Materials: black chalk & blue wash on paper
Dimensions: 21.5 x 17cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £2,500 (Total: £9,500)
Vendor: Historical Portraits Ltd
Review number: 5301 (2003)
Provenance:
Italian collector; donated to the Friends of the Tate to be sold and proceeds to go to the Tate; Sotheby's, 1982; private collector; Historical Portraits Ltd.
Description:
A head and shoulders portrait of W Somerset Maugham (1874-965). Sutherland was commissioned to paint Somerset Maugham's portrait in 1949 and this seems to be one of the sketches from life. He worked up the sketches into more elaborate drawings now in the Fitzwilliam and the final painting hangs in the Tate.
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