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Article: Sutherland and Picasso.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
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- Art in America
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- March 1, 2004
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To the Editors:
I read David Ebony's piece on Graham Sutherland [A.i.A., Jan. '04] with great interest and pleasure. It felt like an instance of synchronicity--I started noticing Sutherland's work about 18 months ago and have become increasingly intrigued by him. Like Bacon, he offers a significant bridge between late Surrealism and the grotesquerie of contemporary art.
Incidentally, I find that Picasso is even more important to Sutherland than Mr. Ebony suggests. (Of course, given my Picasso research, I would think that.) It seems to me that the influence of the Isenheim altarpiece on Sutherland was almost certainly mediated by Picasso's numerous ...