The mouse that got away! Unusual study of kindly owl expected to fetch bids of £8,000-plus at West End auction

                                                                       

                                          

Entitled Bird of Prey With A Mouse, this unusual gouache-and-pencil painting by Graham Sutherland (1903-1980) is expected to fetch between £8,000 and £12,000  when it goes under the hammer at an auction of Modern British and Irish Art to be held by Bonhams at their saleroom in  New Bond Street, London next Wednesday, June 24.