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Sulphur Miners
Purchased 1950
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Sulphur Miners
support: 692 × 1045 mm
Purchased 1950
<strong>Renato Guttuso</strong> born 1912 [- 1987]
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Inscribed 'Guttuso 49' br.<br/>
Watercolour on paper, 27 1/4 x 41 1/8 (69.5 x 104.5)<br/>
Purchased from the artist through the Hanover Gallery (Knapping Fund) 1950<br/>
<em>Exh:</em> <em>Renato Guttuso</em>, Hanover Gallery, London, June-July 1950 (not in catalogue)
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In addition to the series on the occupation of the land, Guttuso made, particularly from 1945 to 1953, a number of works based on the life and popular struggles of the Sicilian peasants. These included <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a> and <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a> of cart-drivers, fishermen and sulphur miners (sulphur is mined principally in Caltanissetta and Girgenti, and in minor quantities in Palermo and Catania). The oil paintings of sulphur miners include one of 1948 in the National Gallery in Prague.
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<strong>Published in:</strong><br/>
Ronald Alley, <em>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</em>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.349-50, reproduced p.349


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actions: processes and functions adults architecture basket carrying / holding countries and continents group groups industrial industrial and crafts Italy, Sicily man mine miner objects people places vessels and containers work and occupations