λ Graham Sutherland (British 1903-1980)Outcast Coal Production (Tin Mine)Mixed media on paper Signed, dated 1947 and dedicated 'For Heinz Roland with regards' (verso)23 x 19.5cm (9 x 7½ in.)Provenance:Collection Dr. Henry (Heinz) RolandSale, Christie's, London, 25 May 1994, lot 26Crane Kalman Gallery, LondonPurchased from the above by the late owner in 1999Exhibited:Bury St. Edmunds Art Gallery, Works from the Roland Collection, 1979, no. 54London, Fischer Fine Art Ltd., The British Neo-Romantics 1935-1950, July-September 1983, no. 86Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, One Man's Choice, April-May 1985, no. 107London, Crane Kalman Gallery, C.K.G. Retrospective, 1999 In 1942, Sutherland wasmissioned as an official war artist to document the industrial work supporting the war effort. Through his training as an engineering draughtsman, Sutherland was well equipped to understand the processes that he was recording. From an artistic point of view, the experience also impressed upon him a lasting preoccupation with what he saw as the anthropomorphic characteristics of machinery, a fascination which informed his work well beyond his wartime output. Dr. Henry (Heinz) Roland (1907-1993) was one of the partners of the enormously influential gallery Roland, Browse & Delbanco, formed in London in 1945. The gallery supported a broad stable of artists and Roland's private collection included superb examples of works by Henry Moore and Auguste Rodin, German artists such as Max Ernst, Erich Heckel and Emil Nolde as well British artists including Graham Sutherland.