The Deposition: PD.969-1963

People, subjects and objects depicted

• Painting
• Jesus Christ
• The Virgin Mary
• Saints
• Cross
• Crown of Thorns
• Tomb
• Rock
• Golgotha

Materials used in production

Oil paint

Components of the work

Support composed of millboard

Techniques used in production

Painting : Oil on millboard

Inscription or legends present

• Text: Sutherland
• Location: Lower right
• Type: Signature

• Text: 23.11.46
• Location: Lower right
• Type: Date

• Text: British Council, Venice, Biennale, 1952, (owner) W.A. Evill
• Location: Verso
• Type: Label

• Text: British Council, Sutherland exhibition, Paris, Amsterdam, Zurich, no. 16, no date (owner) W.A. Evill
• Location: Verso
• Type: Label

• Text: Sao Paulo Biennial exhibition, no. 2, 1955 (owner) W.A. Evill
• Location: Verso
• Type: Label

• Text: Venice Biennale, 1952
• Location: Verso
• Type: Label

• Text: DEPOSITION. SUTHERLAND. 300 guineas
• Location: Verso
• Method of creation: Graphite

• Text: IIId Biennial of the Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paulo, June-October 1955, sale price £2420, owner Evill
• Location: Verso, frame
• Type: Label

References and bibliographic entries

• Exposition Graham Sutherland
• The work of Graham Sutherland
• Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Annual Report for the Year ending 31 December 1963
• Sutherland page(s): 131
• [Unknown; Illustrated London News; 1960] page(s): 596
• Catalogue of Paintings in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Vol. III, British School page(s): 260-261

Related exhibitions

• [Fitzwilliam Museum, 1949-50]
• Seventeen collectors
• XXVI Biennale
• Exposition Graham Sutherland
• Sutherland
• Graham Sutherland
• Sutherland (1955)
• The Wilfrid Evill Collection
• Sutherland (1965)
• Sutherland (1966)
• Decade 1940's
• Graham Sutherland (1982)
• La Maddelena tra sacroe profano
• L' Art en Europe 1946-1956
• Les Figures de la Liberté
• Modern Art and the Religious Imagination
• Graham Sutherland (2003)
• Minding Traditions? Twentieth Century Artists and the Judeo-Christian Legacy
• Picasso and Modern British Art

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.969-1963
Primary reference Number: 3982
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 25 July 2023 Last processed: Tuesday 25 July 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints