Our “Modern Prints”, in the majority of cases, are posters designed by artists with the intention to advertise their exhibitions. These posters are based on an original draft by the artist. The dates printed relate to the date of the poster’s original production. In many cases the lettering was also designed by the artist.


This glorious original lithographic poster by famous British artist Graham Sutherland, was created for the International Art Biennale of Menton in the South of France in 1972. The Art Biennale in Menton unfortunately ended in 1978. But this colorful image (including and incredibly deep and bright red) by Sutherland entitled "The Rock" is a wonderful reminder of a bygone era. Edition of 1,000 aside from the signed and numbered edition of 225 on Arches paper (variant with three other motifs instead of the text).

By the 1960s printmaking, and especially lithography, returned to Sutherland’s focus in full force. During these last few decades of his life he produced almost three times as many prints as he had in the first half of his career, experimenting with ever more vivid uses of colour and form.

Sutherland was an English artist who is notable for his work in glass, fabrics, prints and portraits, his work largely inspired by landscape and religion. Printmaking, mostly of romantic landscapes, dominated Sutherland’s work during the 1920s, developing his skill in watercolors before switching to oil paints in the 1940s. It was these oil paintings, often of surreal, organic landscapes of the Pembrokeshire coast, that secured his reputation as a leading British modern artist. Sutherland taught at a number of art colleges, notably at Chelsea School of Art and at Goldsmiths College, where he had been a student. He served as an official war artist in the Second World War drawing industrial scenes on the British home front. As such, Sutherland was then commissioned to design the massive central tapestry in the new Coventry Cathedral in post-war Britain.