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PETER LANYON (1918-1964)

Lot 178
17.10.2024 10:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 178 | PETER LANYON (1918-1964)
Estimate value
£ 45 000 – 65 000
PETER LANYON (1918-1964)
Godrevy Lighthouse
indistinctly signed and dated 'Peter/Lanyon/49' (lower right)
oil on board
20 ½ x 10 ½ in. (52.1 x 26.6 cm.)
Painted in 1949.




Provenance

with Lefevre Gallery, London, 1949.
Private collection, Rome.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 5 July 1972, lot 166.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 10 October 1990, lot 196.
with Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London.
with Austin Desmond, London, where purchased by the present owner by 2000.



Literature

D. Cooper, 'Exhibition: London - Paris, the New Burlington Galleries, March 1950', Edios: A Journal of Painting, Sculpture and Design, no. 1, May - June 1950, p. 46.
D. Lewis, ‘Peter Lanyon’, Cornish Review, no. 4, Spring 1950, p. 73.
A. Causey, Peter Lanyon: His Painting, Henley-on-Thames, 1971, p. 46, no. 27.
A. Wilson, ‘Peter Lanyon’, Modern Painters, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring 1995, pp. 89-90.
A. Lanyon, Portreath: Paintings of Peter Lanyon, Newlyn, 1993, p. 26, illustrated.
M. Garlake, 'Peter Lanyon's letter to Naum Gabo', Burlington Magazine, vol. 137, no. 1105, April 1995, p. 237.
C. Stephens, Peter Lanyon: At the Edge of Landscape, London, 2000, p. 65.
A. Lanyon, Saint Ives: The Paintings of Peter Lanyon, St Ives, 2001, p. 169, illustrated.
A. Causey, Peter Lanyon: Modernism and the Land, London, 2006, pp. 59-60, 69, no. 34, illustrated.
T. Treves, Peter Lanyon: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings and Three-Dimensional Works, London, 2018, pp. 14, 16, 22, 41, 196, 200, 205, 222, 308, 547, no. 251, fig. 22.



Exhibited

London, Lefevre Gallery, Paintings by Lelia Caetani and Peter Lanyon, October 1949, no. 62.
London, Institute of Contemporary Arts, New Burlington Gallery, London - Paris: New Trends in Painting and Sculpture, March - April 1950, no. 52.
London, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Peter Lanyon: Landscapes 1946-64, April 1991, no. 3, illustrated.
London, Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, Peter Lanyon: Cornwall Inside Out, February - March 2018.
Artist:Peter Lanyon (1918 - 1964)
Applied technique:Oil, Painted
Art style:Modern art
Auction house category:Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings
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