Study for "Mantis" [recto]

1950

Graham Sutherland

Artist, British, 1903 - 1980

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk heightened with white chalk on brown wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of William B. O'Neal

  • Dimensions

    overall: 21.6 x 13.4 cm (8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1995.52.176.a

Associated Artworks

Study for "Thorn Head" [verso]

Graham Sutherland

1949

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Redfern Gallery, Ltd.); purchased by William B. O'Neal, Charlottesville, VA, 1956-1994; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1961

  • Drawings from the Collection of William B. O'Neal, University of Virgina Museum of Fine Arts, Charlottesville, March 5-25, 1961.

1971

  • Master Drawings from the O'Neal Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond and tour, 1971-1972.

Bibliography

1961

  • Drawings from the Collection of William B. O'Neal, University of Virgina Museum of Fine Arts, Charlottesville, 1961, 39

1993

  • NGA O'Neal 1993, checklist 228

Inscriptions

upper left in graphite: Sutherland; lower center to lower right in graphite: Study for Mantis 1950

Wikidata ID

Q64572759

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