Title: |
Model with Yellow Hair |
Artist: |
Sutton, Philip (Poole, Dorset, UK, Born, 1928 - Resides,
Wales) |
Date: |
1969 |
Medium: |
Original Woodcut |
Note: |
Philip Sutton: A major contemporary
British painter and printmaker, Philip Sutton studied under William Coldstream
at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, from 1948 to 1953. He then travelled
to Spain, France and Italy on scholarships before returning to London
in 1954 to teach at the Slade. |
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Philip Sutton's first one man show was held
in 1956. Since that time his art has been exhibited extensively in England,
France, America and Australia. Sutton was elected an Associate of the
Royal Academy in 1977 and a full Academician in 1988. Examples of his
paintings and woodcuts are housed in the permanent collections of the
Arts Council of Great Britain, the City Art Gallery, Birmingham, the Manchester
City Art Gallery, the London Stock Exchange, the Tate Gallery, London,
the Durban Museum and Art Gallery, South Africa, the National Gallery
of Victoria, Melbourne, and the National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.
Philip Sutton currently lives and works in Pembrokeshire, Wales. |
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Philip Sutton's first woodcuts date from the
early 1950's. Since that time he has created a number of fine works of
art in this medium dealing with self-portraits, figure studies and nudes.
All the blocks used for his woodcuts were cut directly from life. Model
with Yellow Hair, is one of his largest and most impressive woodcuts
and was published in 1969 in a small, limited edition of thirty impressions.
In 1998 a book entitled, Woodcuts by Philip Sutton: 1950's - 1970's,
was published upon his graphic art. |
Provenance: |
From the collection of Roger Trlak and bearing
his inventory number, 'T-878', on the verso. Roger Trlak (1934-1975) established
the commercial art company of Martin-Trlak in Chicago. In 1972 he also
opened the RST Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona where he exhibited not only
his own large collection of mostly contemporary art but also held important
exhibitions of many modern artists. These Included such major American
and international printmakers as Joseph Hirsch, Luigi Lucioni and Paul
Wunderlich. Among Trlak's closest friends in the arts community were Raphael
Soyer, Ivan Albright and Hans Burkhardt. Their original prints and paintings
were constantly exhibited at the RST Gallery until it was closed in 1975
due to Trlak's untimely death. |
Edition: |
Limited edition of thirty impressions, numbered
12/30. |
Size: |
18 X 18 (Sizes in inches are approximate,
height preceding width of plate-mark or image.) |
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Matted with 100% Archival Materials |
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Price: $595.00 US |
Note: |
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Condition: |
Printed upon thick, laid mulberry paper and
with extra wide, deckled margins as published in England in 1969. Signed,
dated, titled and numbered, '12/30', by the artist in pencil along the
lower margin. Containing a small, very faint scratch mark on the figure
of the model, else a vibrantly printed impression and in very good condition
throughout. Model with Yellow Hair represents both a scarce and
important example of the art of Philip Sutton. |
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