Modern & Post-War British Art

Modern & Post-War British Art

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Lot Closed

November 17, 02:07 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 80,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

PETER LANYON

1918 - 1964

GODREVY


signed Lanyon (lower right)

oil on board

unframed: 50 by 39cm.; 19½ by 15¼in.

framed: 72.5 by 61cm.; 28½ by 24in.

Executed in 1954.


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

Gimpel Fils, London, where acquired by Frank Walker in 1954

James Walker

Gimpel Fils, London, 1998

Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London, where acquired by the family of the present owner in 1998


Andrew Causey, Peter Lanyon: His Painting, Aidan Ellis Publishing Limited, Henley-on-Thames, 1971, p. 47, no. 39, dated 1951

Andrew Lanyon, Peter Lanyon: 1918-1964, Andrew Lanyon, Newlyn, 1990, illustrated p. 109, dated 1951

Andrew Lanyon, Saint Ives: The Paintings of Peter Lanyon, Andrew Lanyon, Newlyn, 2001, illustrated n.p., dated 1951

Toby Treves, Peter Lanyon: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings and Three-Dimensional Works, Modern Art Press, London, 2018, no. 335, illustrated p. 308

London, Gimpel Fils, Peter Lanyon, 17 March 1954 - unknown date, no. 4

London, Austin/Desmond Fine Art, Aspects of Modern British Art 1910-1965, 25 November - 23 December 1998, un-numbered exhibition, illustrated in the catalogue