Page 33 - Studio International - December 1967

Graham Sutherland, La Fontaine 1964 in the water (see Dark Entrance of 1961)... The fountain in the
Oil on canvas, 72 x 56+ in. Stuyvesant painting is-of course-a figure. The leaves arrived
purely by chance and were used in a similar way in the Adenauer
'The work possibly took form this way: there are a number of portrait of the following year.'
fountains and "sources" near our house in France, and on my
walks they seemed to hold, perhaps, more than their natural
significance. Some were man-made, some natural, and some
natural but aided by man. I made some notes and the forms
began to take on a shape quite unlike the original subject. At
this time I found a small and most curious organic object, and
the impression of this joined with my other thoughts on the idea.
The idea of water had started before in France, and was greatly
rekindled in Venice about four years ago with the pipe reflected