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Peter Lanyon (British, 1918-1964) Untitled Red Figure Study 58.6 x 47 cm. (23 x 18 1/2 in.) (Executed circa 1950) image 1
Peter Lanyon (British, 1918-1964) Untitled Red Figure Study 58.6 x 47 cm. (23 x 18 1/2 in.) (Executed circa 1950) image 2
Peter Lanyon (British, 1918-1964) Untitled Red Figure Study 58.6 x 47 cm. (23 x 18 1/2 in.) (Executed circa 1950) image 3
Lot 16AR

Peter Lanyon
(British, 1918-1964)
Untitled Red Figure Study 58.6 x 47 cm. (23 x 18 1/2 in.)

22 – 23 June 2022, 15:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£7,000 - £10,000

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Peter Lanyon (British, 1918-1964)

Untitled Red Figure Study
bears two studio stamps (verso and on the backboard)
gouache
58.6 x 47 cm. (23 x 18 1/2 in.)
Executed circa 1950

Footnotes

Provenance
The Artist, thence by descent to
Private Collection, U.K.
Their sale; Bonhams, London, 9 March 2011, lot 68, where acquired by the present owner
Private Collection, U.K.

The present work is inscribed 'Red Nude' (verso) and 'Red Figure Study' on the backboard in the hand of Sheila Lanyon, and is recorded in the Peter Lanyon Archive as Untitled Red Figure Study. The work shares its palette and figurative nature with three "Redbody Country" gouaches all executed circa 1952 (examples of which are in the collections of the British Museum and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art).

We are grateful to the Artist's Estate and Toby Treves for their assistance in cataloguing this work.

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