Dimensions: support: 614 x 507 mm frame: 725 x 625 x 70 mm
Copyright: © Tate | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: Graham Sutherland’s "Entrance to a Lane" at the Tate is a puzzle! The shapes are so abstracted. It feels like peering into a shadowy thicket. What do you make of it? Curator: It's less about a specific place, more about *feeling* it. Sutherland, after the war, found beauty in the gnarled, the overgrown. Almost a secret world, don't you think? Editor: A secret world... I see that in the colors, like they're hiding something. Curator: Exactly! And consider the war's impact – a generation reassessing beauty. It’s a landscape of resilience, a lane to something new. Editor: So, it's not just a pretty picture, but a reflection of a whole era finding its way? That's powerful.
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Though apparently abstract, the subject of this painting is a lane in Pembrokeshire, south-west Wales. Sutherland visited the area regularly between 1934 and 1946. By presenting what he observed in simplified forms, Sutherland felt he captured the ‘intellectual and emotional’ essence of the landscape. He was attracted to the contrasting qualities of the setting, which he described as ‘darkness and light - of decay and life’. In 1939, with the Second World War looming, finding refuge in this natural setting may have had particular significance. Gallery label, January 2019
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