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Graham Sutherland
Identity portrait of Admiral Nelson, 1955
Author:
Graham SutherlandBio:
Inglaterra, 1903-Londres, Inglaterra ,1980Title:
Identity portrait of Admiral NelsonDate:
1955Medium:
Óleo sobre telaDimensions:
61 x 73,5 x 2 cmCredit line:
Doação Max e Lily Lowenstein, sem dataObject type:
PinturaInventory number:
MASP.00430Photography credits:
João Musa
The work Horatio Nelson an Imaginary Portrait was commissioned by Assis Chateaubriand, Brazilian ambassador in London, and a great admiror of Lord Nelson, in 1957. Chateaubriand was probably introduced to Sutherland by a common friend: Hans P. Juda, Esq.
— Unknown authorship, 1998
Source: Luiz Marques (org.), Catalogue of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo: MASP, 1998. (new edition, 2008).
