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Peter Lanyon

Untitled (Bosigran, Battleship Rock)

Auction Closed

June 30, 10:59 AM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Peter Lanyon

1918 - 1964

Untitled (Bosigran, Battleship Rock)


inscribed Peter Lanyon,Bosigran and dated 1938 (on the reverse)

oil on canvas 

unframed: 63.5 by 76cm.; 25 by 30in.

framed: 73.5 by 86cm.; 28¾ by 34in.

Executed circa 1936.


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

The Artist's Estate

Andrew Lanyon, Peter Lanyon: 1918-1964, Andrew Lanyon, Newlyn, 1990, illustrated p. 24 (as Battleship Rock, Bosigran)

Chris Stephens, Peter Lanyon: At the Edge of Landscape, 21 Publishing, London, 2000, fig. 8, illustrated pl. 8, p. 29

Andrew Lanyon, Saint Ives: The Paintings of Peter Lanyon, Andrew Lanyon, Newlyn, 2001, illustrated p. 36 (as Battleship Rock)

Toby Treves, Peter Lanyon: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings and Three-Dimensional Works, Modern Art Press, London, 2018, no. 19, illustrated p. 90