British Art Evening Sale: Modern/Contemporary

British Art Evening Sale: Modern/Contemporary

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Property from the Neiman Marcus Collection

Peter Lanyon

Rising Air

Auction Closed

June 29, 02:19 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Neiman Marcus Collection


Peter Lanyon

1918 - 1964

Rising Air


signed Lanyon and dated 61 (lower centre); also signed Lanyon, titled, dated 61 and inscribed (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

unframed: 152.5 by 122cm.; 60 by 48in.

framed: 156 by 125cm.; 61½ by 49¼in.

Executed in 1961.


We are grateful to Martin Lanyon and Toby Treves for their kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.

Gimpel Fils, London, where acquired by the present owners in 1961
Anon., 'British Abstractions', Time (Atlantic edition), vol. 78, no. 7, 18 August 1961, pp. 42-8, illustrated p. 43
John Dalton, 'Lanyon and Landscape', The Studio, vol. 164, no. 835, November 1962, pp. 178-81, illustrated p. 181
Peter Lanyon 1918-1964: Bilder 1960-1964, Gimpel and Hanover Galerie, Zurich, 17 September - 17 October 1964, exh. cat., no. 3 
Andrew Causey, Peter Lanyon: His Painting, Aidan Ellis, Henley-on-Thames, 1971, no. 166, p. 64
Tom Cross, Painting the Warmth of the Sun: St Ives Artists 1935-1975, rev. ed., Halsgrove, Wellington, 2008, p. 119
Toby Treves and Barnaby Wright, 'Peter Lanyon's Gliding Paintings: An Introduction', Soaring Flight: Peter Lanyon's Gliding Paintings, exh. cat., Courtauld Gallery, London, 2015, pp. 20, 23, illustrated fig. 5 (dated 1960)
Toby Treves, Peter Lanyon: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings and Three-Dimensional Works, Modern Art Press, London, 2018, illustrated no. 484, p. 498-9