Bill Sutton

Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1917, d.2000

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Squared-up compositional study for Homage to Frances Hodgkins

  • 1951
  • Pencil
  • Gift of the artist, 1978
  • 278 x 383mm
  • 78/80

About the artist

Sutton, William Alexander (Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1917, d.2000)

This is one of a series of preparatory drawings for William Sutton’s painting ‘Homage to Frances Hodgkins’. The painting, now destroyed,was a group portrait of the leading supporters of the controversial purchase of Hodgkins’s The Pleasure Garden.

'Homage to Frances Hodgkins' was reproduced in issue 15 of Bulletin.