Graham Sutherland: Inspirations

First edition, first impression.  128pp, profusely illustrated in colour and black and white.  Black cloth-covered boards with giltt titles on the spine.  Slim 4to.  Cloth very slightly rubbed on corners and spine ends, tiny mark on lower edge of upper panel, else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.  In its original glossy, illustrated dust wrapper, price clipped, lightly bumped on extreme edges, small nick at top of spine with heavier bump to rear upper edge.  

Graham Sutherland (1903 – 17 February 1980) was a prolific English artist. Notable for his paintings of abstract landscapes and for his portraits of public figures, Sutherland also worked in other media, including printmaking, tapestry and glass design. Such was his standing as an artist in the post-war years that he was commissioned to design the huge tapestry – Christ in Glory in the Tetramorph –  in the newly built Coventry Cathedral after the old Cathedral had been destroyed by enemy action.