Modern British & Irish Art Evening Auction
Modern British & Irish Art Evening Auction
A LIFE WITH ART: THE COLLECTION OF MOLLIE AND GRAHAM DARK
Peter Lanyon
Levant Zawn
Live auction begins on:
November 14, 06:00 PM GMT
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.
We are grateful to Martin Lanyon for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.
Gimpel Fils, London
Mr and Mrs J. D. Priestman
Austin Desmond, Ascot, where acquired by the late 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
Andrew Causey, introduction, Peter Lanyon: Paintings, Drawings and Constructions, 1937-64, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 1978, exh. cat., p.5
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, Peter Lanyon. Paintings, 5 - 30 May 1955, no. 16 with tour to Nottingham, no. 15 (dated 1954)
London, Tate Gallery, Arts Council, Peter Lanyon, 30 May - 30 June 1968, no. 29, with tour to Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Plymouth, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, and Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery, Peter Lanyon: Paintings, Drawings and Constructions, 1937-64, 25 January - 4 March 1978, no. 56, 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, Peter Lanyon Works 1946-1964, 1 - 19 November 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, 2 February - 3 March 1985, 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