Live Auction 1158Modern British And Irish Art Day Sale
Peter Lanyon (1918-1964)
Lot 150 POST-WAR BRITISH MODERNISM FROM THE PARNASSUS COLLECTION

Peter Lanyon (1918-1964)

Boulder Coast

Closed21 November 2013

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GBP 43,750

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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.)

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

Specialist note

'(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).