British Art Evening Sale: Modern/Contemporary

British Art Evening Sale: Modern/Contemporary

Property from a Private Collection, California

Peter Lanyon

Susan

Auction Closed

June 29, 02:19 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, California


Peter Lanyon

1918 - 1964

Susan


signed Lanyon and dated 58 (centre left); also signed Peter Lanyon, titled and dated 1958 (on the reverse)

oil on board

unframed: 121 by 118cm.; 47½ by 46½in.

framed: 125 by 120.5cm.; 49¼ by 47½in.

Executed in 1958.


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

Catherine Viviano Gallery, New York, where acquired by Stanley J. Seeger, 25 February 1959
His sale, Sotheby's London, 14 June 2001, lot 105, where acquired by the present owner
Art News, vol. 60, no. 5, September 1961,  illustrated p. 33
Peter Lanyon, 'A Sense of Place: Notes on My Painting in General', Painter & Sculptor, vol. 5, no. 2, Autumn 1962, pp. 3-7, illustrated p. 6
Alan Bowness, Peter Lanyon, Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1968, n.p.
Andrew Causey, Peter Lanyon - His Paintings, Aidan Ellis, Henley-on-Thames, 1971, no. 120, p. 58, illustrated pl. 58 
Andrew Lanyon, Peter Lanyon 1918-1964, Andrew Lanyon, Newlyn, 1990, illustrated p. 178
Margaret Garlake, Peter Lanyon, Tate Publishing, London, 1998, p. 58
Chris Stephens, Peter Lanyon: At the Edge of Landscape, 21 Publishing, London, 2000, p. 125, illustrated pl. 64 
Andrew Lanyon, Saint Ives: The Paintings of Peter Lanyon, Andrew Lanyon, St Ives, 2001, illustrated pp. 70-1
Andrew Causey, Peter Lanyon: Modernism and the Land, Reaktion Books, London, 2006, pp. 167-8, illustrated pl. 95
Toby Treves, Peter Lanyon: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings and Three-Dimensional Works, Modern Art Press, London, 2018, no. 402, illustrated pp. 384-5
New York, Catherine Viviano Gallery, Peter Lanyon, 1959, no. 16
Princeton, University Art Museum , Stanley Seeger Collection, 1961, no. 100, illustrated in the catalogue n.p.
London, Tate, Peter Lanyon, 1968, no. 51, where lent by Stanley J. Seeger, with Arts Council of Great Britain tour to Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Plymouth; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne; City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham and Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 
Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery, Peter Lanyon - Paintings, Drawings and Constructions 1937-64, 1978, no. 65, with tour to Kelvingrove Art Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow; Kettle's Yard, Cambridge; Penwith Society of Artists, St. Ives and Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

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