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PETER LANYON | UNTITLED (RED ROOF AND YELLOW FOREGROUND)

Auction Closed

March 17, 04:17 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

PETER LANYON

1918-1964

UNTITLED (RED ROOF AND YELLOW FOREGROUND)


signed twice; also signed, titled and inscribed on the reverse

oil on board

33 by 40.5cm.; 13 by 16in.

Executed circa 1938.

Olive Lanyon

Sale, Bonhams London, 16th March 2004, lot 78, where acquired by the present owner

Toby Treves, Peter Lanyon: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings and Three-Dimensional Works, Modern Art Press, London, 2018, cat. no.128, illustrated p.129.

There is a further work by Lanyon depicting the row of sea-front buildings just to the left of the Arts Club in St Ives.


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