Collections: Sotheby’s, April 5, 2000 (98); With Hazlitt Holland Hibbert; Private

Collection, Gt. Britain

Exhibited: Palazzo Reale, Milan and the Accademia Ligustica, Genoa, Sutherland:
Disegni di Guerra 1979 (145). The catalogue, with an introduction by
Roberto Tassi, was re-printed in English with a foreword by Julian Andrews
in 1980; Imperial War Museum Graham Sutherland 1982 (144); Olympia
Sutherland 2003 (20)

This is a preliminary study squared for transfer for the full-scale work presented by
The War Artists Advisory Committee to The Sheffield City Museum in 1947. The subject is the ICI Limestone Quarry near Buxton in Derbyshire where Sutherland was in 1943. His time there was recorded in the documentary Out of Chaos.