Peter Lanyon
Constructive Drawing, Two Columns (No. 2)
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Peter Lanyon
1918 - 1964
Constructive Drawing Two Columns (No. 2)
signed Peter Lanyon (upper left)
pencil on paper laid on board
unframed: 26 by 35.5cm.; 10¼ by 14in.
framed: 47.5 by 55cm.; 18¾ by 21½in.
Executed in 1940.
We are grateful to Martin Lanyon and Toby Treves for their kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present lot.
The Artist's Estate
Stoke-on-Trent, City Museum and Art Gallery, Peter Lanyon: drawings and graphic work, with Arts Council tour, 1981, no. 7, illustrated
The present work and its companion piece (Constructive Drawing, Two Columns (No. 1), 6½ by 9½in., illustrated in Andrew Lanyon, Wartime Abstracts: The Paintings of Peter Lanyon, 1996, p.26) were done just prior to Lanyon enrolling in the RAF in March 1940. This was at a time when he was increasingly inspired by Naum Gabo’s contributions to Constructivism and having lessons from Ben Nicholson.
In the summer of 1939 Lanyon attended the Euston Road School which was run by Victor Pasmore and William Coldstream. Two months later he met Gabo and Nicholson back home in St Ives. These wide-ranging influences supercharged Lanyon’s painting in new directions. But this was, dramatically, cut-short by Lanyon’s enrolment into the RAF which saw him exiled far away from Cornwall for six long years.
Martin Lanyon, 2022.
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