Sutherland on Show

These lithographic posters (left) were created by Graham Sutherland for the Ninth Biennale International d'Art at Menton where he was Guest of Honour in 1972. Posters for the same art event had been designed in previous years by artists such as Dufy, Chagall, Dali and Picasso.  

It was Picasso who had a particularly strong influence on Sutherland throughout the British artist's career, and this link is amongst those explored in the new Tate exhibition, Picasso and Modern British Art.

Sutherland said of Picasso: '[he] seemed to have the true idea of metamorphosis, whereby things found a new form through feeling.' *

Sutherland’s own experimentation with form is explored in the current exhibition at Modern Art Oxford where an extensive collection of rarely seen paintings are on show.
 

For a glimpse of the exhibition have a look at these pics on the BBC website.
 

For more of our Sutherland prints, including Metamorphosis: Egg, Larvae, Pupae (right), click here.
 

For our Picasso prints, click here.

*quoted in The Spirit of Place: Nine Neo-Romantic Artists and Their Times by Malcome Yorke