Boulder Coast

Details

Peter Lanyon (1918-1964)
Boulder Coast
signed and dated 'Lanyon 58' (lower right), signed again, inscribed and dated again 'Boulder Coast/Peter Lanyon/1958' (on the reverse)
gouache
29½ x 21½ in. (75 x 54.5 cm.)

Provenance

with Gimpel Fils, London.
with Blond Fine Art, London, where purchased by Christopher D. Gough.
Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 14 June 2005, lot 109.

Exhibited

Edinburgh, Gimpel Fils, 1986, catalogue not traced.

Special Notice

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Lot Essay

'(my paintings) are not abstract, nor are they landscape. They use abstraction as a method and landscape experience as a source ... (they) reject the conventions of landscape but remain recognisable in the county. They are concerned with environment rather than view, and with air rather than sky ... The country is used to make something, just as clay is used to make a pot' (Peter Lanyon quoted in St Ives Carnival programme, 1961).

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