Peter Lanyon (1918-1964)
Untitled (Farmhouse)
- oil on panel
- 32 by 39.5cm.; 12 ½ by 15 ½ in..
- painted circa 1936
- with a further oil on panel, Untitled (Bare Trees), painted in 1939, on the reverse, by the same hand
- Provenance: Jonathan Lanyon Sale; Sotheby's, London, 14 September 2005, lot 53 (as Landscape with Cottages) Private Collection, U.K.
- Literature: T. Treves, Peter Lanyon, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings and Three-Dimensional Works, Modern Art Press, London, 2018, p. 89, no. 17, illustrated (Untitled (Farmhouse)) and p. 131, no. 133, illustrated (Untitled (Bare Trees)).
- A note in Peter Lanyon, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings and Three-Dimensional Works describes how although the cataloguer has not been able to locate the specific buildings, 'they almost certainly were, and perhaps still are, in Penwith' (T. Treves, Peter Lanyon, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings and Three-Dimensional Works, Modern Art Press, London, 2018, p. 89).
- £7,500 plus 4% ARR
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.