Dorset Ridge

Details

Peter Lanyon (1918-1964)
Dorset Ridge
signed and dated 'LANYON 58' (lower centre), signed again, inscribed and dated again 'DORSET RIDGE/Peter Lanyon 1958' (on the reverse)
oil on board
24 x 36 in. (61 x 91.4 cm.)

Provenance

The Estate of George H. Deuble, Jr, by whom donated to the Canton Art Institute.

Literature

A. Causey, Peter Lanyon, Oxford, 1971, p. 56, no. 103.

Exhibited

New York, Catherine Viviano Gallery, Peter Lanyon, January - February 1959, no. 15.

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Lot Essay

'These paintings are not abstract nor are they landscape, they use abstraction as a method and landscape as a source. They reject the conventions of landscape but remain recognisably in the country. 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. The observer is encouraged to move and to become a part of the painting just as a dancer becomes part of music'

(Peter Lanyon, circa 1958, cited in A. Lanyon, Peter Lanyon 1918-1964, Penzance, 1990, p. 172)

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