Live Auction 21949Modern British and Irish Art Day Sale
PETER LANYON (1918-1964)
Lot 109 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE JEREMY LE GRICE

PETER LANYON (1918-1964)

Little Bracken

Closed22 March 2023

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GBP 18,900

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PETER LANYON (1918-1964)
Little Bracken
signed 'Peter Lanyon' (lower right), signed again, inscribed and dated 'LITTLE/BRACKEN/Peter Lanyon/51./ATTIC STUDIO/ST IVES' (on the reverse)
oil and pencil on board, relief, in the artist's frame
14 x 5 7/8 in. (35.5 x 15 cm.)
Painted in 1951.

A gift from the artist to Jeremy Le Grice, and by descent.

Specialist note

The painter Jeremy Le Grice was a friend of Lanyon’s and had been a student at St Peter’s Loft, the art school in St Ives that Lanyon ran with William Redgrave from 1954 to 1960. Some years later, during a visit to his studio at Little Parc Owles, Lanyon invited Le Grice to choose a painting as a gift. Le Grice chose Little Bracken, and Lanyon went to some trouble to frame the painting himself for his friend.

We are very grateful to Toby Treves for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.