Lot 60
  • 60

PETER LANYON | Untitled (Vase)

Estimate
600 - 800 GBP
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Description

  • Peter Lanyon
  • Untitled (Vase)
  • glazed earthenware
  • height: 18cm., 7in.
  • Executed in 1951.

Provenance

Christie's London, 26 September 1986, lot 87

Exhibited

London, Charing Cross Underground Station, The Observer and London Transport, Ceramics in the Home, 1952, cat. no.64

Literature

Robert Melville, 'Exhibitions', in Architectural Review, vol.113, no.673, January 1953, p.63
Toby Treves, Peter Lanyon, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings and Three-Dimensional Works, London, 2018, cat. no.588, illustrated p.653

Condition

The structure is sound. The glaze is uneven in places, most probably as a result of the firing process. There are a number of incredibly fine cracks in the glaze, only visible upon close inspection. There is some surface dirt and some evidence of an old adhesive tape to the sides of the vessel. This excepting the work appears to be in very good overall condition. The work is freestanding. Please telephone the department on +44 (0) 207 293 6424 if you have any questions regarding the present work.
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Catalogue Note

We are grateful to Martin Lanyon and Toby Treves for their kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.

Between 1951 and 1958 Lanyon made an unknown number of ceramics at the Leach Pottery in St Ives and at the Bath Academy of Art at Corsham Court. Rather than throwing pots, Lanyon used the 'slab-build' method and turned to Warren Mackenzie for basic techniques and James Tower for advice on slip decoration. 'His distorted little pots had a pleasant air of benign ferocity' (Robert Melville, Review of the 'Ceramics in the Home' exhibition, The Observer, 1952)