Devastation & Landscape study of Cairns & Mountain and Orange Sky by Graham Sutherland

1) 'Devastation, 1941 - City Panorama'.

Details

Category:
Military
Medium:
1) pen, ink, watercolour; 2) gouache Dimensions: 1) 31 x 45cm; 2) 42 x 40cm
Acquired in:
1987
Vendor:
Charles Kearley

(illustrated); 2) 'Landscape study of Cairns', 1944. 3) Mountain and Orange Sky dated 1944. These 3 drawings are part of a collection of 66 works bequeathed to Pallant House by Charles Kearley. Kearley was a builder and property developer. Kearley built a small block of flats in Kensington in the later 1930s which Maxwell Fry had designed, and the architect persuaded him to add a penthouse for himself at the top. Kearley found the flat very bare so started to furnish it with works by Paul Nash, John Piper and others. His enthusiasm for contemporary art and design grew from then on.

Venue details

Pallant House Gallery 9 North Pallant, Chichester West Sussex PO19 1TJ 01243 774557 www.pallant.org.uk

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