Peter Lanyon (1918-1964)
Still Life with Oranges
- signed and dated ‘48
- oil on board
- 17 by 21 cm.; 6 ¾ by 8 ¼ in.
- Provenance: Endell Mitchell (Denis’s brother) Philips, London, 6 June 1995, Lot 176 Private Collection
- Exhibited: Bookshop of G.R.Downing, St.Ives, 1948, no.3 entitled Oranges
- SOLD
Peter Lanyon (1918-1964)
A Cornish painter of landscapes leaning heavily towards abstraction. Lanyon was one of the most important artists to emerge in post-war Britain. Despite his early death at the age of forty-six he achieved a body of work that is amongst the most original and important reappraisals of modernism in painting to be found anywhere.