Modern British & Irish Art Day Auction

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A LIFE WITH ART: THE COLLECTION OF MOLLIE AND GRAHAM DARK

Peter Lanyon

Peter Lanyon, Levant Zawn

Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

A LIFE WITH ART: THE COLLECTION OF MOLLIE AND GRAHAM DARK

Peter Lanyon

1918 - 1964

Levant Zawn


signed Lanyon and dated 53 (lower right)

oil on board

unframed: 85 by 68cm.; 33½ by 26¾in.

framed: 100.5 by 84cm.; 39½ by 33in.

Executed in 1953.

Gimpel Fils, London

Mr and Mrs J. D. Priestman

Austin Desmond, Ascot, where acquired by present owners, 12 September 1988

Anon, 'Do you understand these pictures?', Liverpool Evening Press, 15 April 1954

Alan Bowness, Peter Lanyon, Arts Council, London, 1968, p. 21

Andrew Causey, Peter Lanyon, His Painting, Aidan Ellis Publishing, 1971, no. 61, p. 50

Toby Treves, Peter Lanyon: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings and Three-Dimensional works, Modern Art Press, London, 2018, no. 324, illustrated p. 295

Ruth Guilding, 'Total immersion: Peter Lanyon in Cornwall at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert', Country Life, 7 February 2018, p. 100-1, illustrated p. 101

London, Contemporary Art Society, Figures in their Setting, 1953, no. 35, with tour

London, Gimpel Fils, Summer Exhibition 1955, 1955, no. 1

Plymouth, City Museum and Art Gallery, 1955, no. 16 with tour to Nottingham, no. 15 (dated 1954)

London, Tate Gallery, Arts Council, 30 May - 30 June 1968, no. 29, with tour to City Museum and Art Gallery, Plymouth, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham and Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (only exhibited at Tate Gallery)

Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery, Peter Lanyon: Paintings, Drawings and Constructions, 1937-64, 25 January - 4 March 1978, no. 56, illustrated p. 31, with tour to Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Penwith Society of Arts, St Ives and Royal West of England Academy of Arts, Bristol

London, Gimpel Fils, 1983, no. 4

Paris, Artcurial, English Contrasts: Pientres et sculpteurs anglais 1950-1960, September - November 1984, illustrated p. 45

London, Arts Council at Serpentine Gallery, Recalling the Fifties: British Painting and Sculpture 1950-60, no catalogue London, Gimpel Fils, 1987, no. 2

London, Gimpel Fils, Fifteen British Artists: Works from the Fifties, 1988, exhibition not numbered

London, Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, Peter Lanyon: Cornwall Inside Out, 9 February - 16 March 2018