Visual Arts: A thorny reputation The paintings of the once-fashionable Graham Sutherland have fallen fro m favour. Is it time for a reassessment?

The Independent - London | May 4, 1999| | Copyright

ANDRAS KALMAN, that dapper, elderly Knightsbridge art-dealer, lets his hand come to rest, with infinite tact, upon my forearm. "And now I am going to be very indiscreet," he tells me. I bend an ear. We are standing in front of a large oil painting by Graham Sutherland, one of the 40 canvases in a mini-retrospective at the Crane Kalman Gallery, the first major showing of Sutherland's work in this country for a decade and a half. The painting, Thorn Head, is dated 1947. It is one of his characteristically spiky plant forms, with heavy religious overtones.

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