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Article: Graham Sutherland at the Musee Picasso.
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- February 1, 1999
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This was the first full-scale Graham Sutherland retrospective in France since a 1952 exhibition at the Musee National d'Art Moderne in Paris. Curated by museum director Maurice Frechuret, the Antibes show included 60 paintings and 80 drawings. The works ranged from small sketches to major canvases covering nearly all periods in the long career of the English-born artist known for his abstracted landscapes and quasi-surrealist images of twisted and tortured organic forms. The exhibition's setting, an airy medieval chateau overlooking the Mediterranean, was an ideal place to view work by Sutherland, who moved to the Cote d'Azur in 1947, at age 44. Until his death in 1980 he ...
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