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PETER LANYON (1918-1964)

Lot 15
19.03.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 15 | PETER LANYON (1918-1964)
Estimate value
£ 300 000 – 500 000
PETER LANYON (1918-1964)
Antigone
signed and dated 'Lanyon/62' (lower right), signed again and dated again 'Lanyon/62' (on the reverse)
oil and gold leaf on canvas
72 x 48 in. (182.8 x 121.9 cm.)
Painted in 1962.




Provenance

with Gimpel Fils, London, where purchased by 2nd Earl of Gowrie in March 1973.
with New Art Centre, London.
Sebastian Walker, London.
His estate sale; Sotheby's, London, 20 November 1991, lot 67.
with Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London.
with Gimpel Fils, London, where purchased by the present owner's family in 2010.



Literature

A. Causey, Peter Lanyon: His Painting, Henley-on-Thames, 1971, p. 65, no. 173.
A. Lanyon, Peter Lanyon 1918-1964, Newlyn, 1990, pp. 234-235, illustrated.
C. Stephens, Peter Lanyon: At the Edge of Landscape, London, 2000, pp. 128-129, 138, pl. 69.
T. Treves, Peter Lanyon: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings and Three-Dimensional Works, London, 2018, pp. 18, 44, 73, 556-557, no. 520, illustrated.



Exhibited

Newlyn, Art Gallery, Newlyn Society of Artists Summer Exhibition, 1963, catalogue not traced.
St Ives, Fore Street Gallery, Peter Lanyon, January - February 1963, exhibition not numbered, as ‘Painting’.
St Ives, Penwith Gallery, Penwith Society of Arts in Cornwall: Autumn Exhibition, September - November 1972, no. 57.
New York, Adelson Galleries, The Poetic Trace: Aspects of British Abstraction since 1945, May - June 1992, no. 22, illustrated.
Cambridge, Kettle’s Yard, Paintmarks, July - September 1994, exhibition not numbered: this exhibition travelled to Southampton, City Art Gallery, September - November and Warwick, Mead Gallery, November – December.
London, Gimpel Fils, 50 Anniversary Exhibition, October - November 1996, exhibition not numbered.
Sydney, Annandale Galleries, David Bomberg, Peter Lanyon, Ivon Hitchens, July - August 2000, no. 4.
St Ives, Tate, Peter Lanyon, October 2010 - January 2011, pp. 72, 92-93, 141, exhibition not numbered, illustrated.
Artist:Peter Lanyon (1918 - 1964)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Modern art
Auction house category:Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings
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