Peter Lanyon

The Artist's Family, from whom acquired by the present owner

Manchester, University of Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery, Peter Lanyon: Paintings, Drawings and Constructions 1937-64, 25th January - 4th March 1978, cat. no.24, with tour to Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Penwith Society of Arts, St Ives, and Royal West of England Academy of Arts, Bristol;
Penzance, Newlyn Orion Galleries, Cornwall: Drawings by Peter Lanyon, Photographs by Andrew Lanyon, 26th April - 21st May 1983, cat. no.42, with British Council tour to Lisbon, Madrid, Terrassa and Valencia;
London, Tate, exhibited as part of a study display accompanying Porthleven (1951, Collection Tate, London), 2010 (no catalogue produced).

William Feaver, Cornwall; Peter Lanyon Drawings, Andrew Lanyon Photographs, Alison Hodge, Penzance, 1983, illustrated p.72;
Andrew Causey, Peter Lanyon: Modernism and the Land, Reaktion Books, London, 2006, illustrated p.89;
Tate St Ives, Peter Lanyon, Tate, 2010, illustrated p.48.

The work is attached to the mount with one section of adhesive tape at the top of the sheet. The work has previously been adhered to a boacking board and when separated this has resulted in some losses to the reverse of the sheet, and in turn an area of damage to the lower left corner. This has been patched and is only visible upon close inspection. There is an old repaired tear to the upper edge. There are two small nicks in the paper to the right edge largely covered by the current mount. There are a small number of light creases to the sheet, in particular to the lower left quadrant and to the upper right and lower left corners. The crease in the lower left corner is not visible in the current mount. There are artist's pinholes in the upper left and right corners. There is a light pattern of foxing and staining throughout the sheet. There are one or two small accretions and instances of studio matter and detritus, most noticeably towards the upper edge. This excepting the works appears in good overall condition. The work is window mounted and presented in a simple wooden frame held behind glass. Please contact the department on +44 (0) 207 293 6424 if you have any questions regarding the present work.
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We are grateful to Martin Lanyon for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.

The present work is one of the more important drawings from the recognised series of around twenty which Lanyon did in 1949-50, as preparation for the painting Porthleven of 1951, which is in the collection of the Tate, London.