Peter Lanyon (1918 - 1964)

Oil on canvas
51 x 58.5 cm
Signed and dated, front, left centre, vertical: Peter Lanyon 46
Inscribed and dated, back, canvas rollover: p.lanyon 1946 trip round lighthouse 368, in another hand; inscribed, back, canvas rollover: Peter Lanyon … igh …, in another hand. Verso: Untitled (Houses at Westcotts Quay), 1937 (cat. 085)

Provenance
Private Collection

Exhibitions
Crypt of the New Gallery, St Ives, Drawings, Paintings and Sculptures by Sven Berlin, John Wells, Peter Lanyon, Bryan Wynter & Printings by Guido Morris’ 1946, no. 82
Tate Gallery, St Ives, Peter Lanyon: Generation, 1994–95, no. 10

Literature
Andrew Causey, Peter Lanyon: His Paintings, Henley-on-Thames 1971, p. 44, no. 11
Andrew Lanyon, Peter Lanyon: 1918-1964, Newlyn 1990, reproduced p. 68 (colour), entitled Trip Round the Lighthouse Andrew Lanyon, Portreath: The Paintings of Peter Lanyon, Newlyn 1993, pp. 22–3, reproduced p. 23 (colour)
Chris Stephens 2000, Peter Lanyon, London 2000, p. 20, entitled Trip Round the Lighthouse
Andrew Lanyon, Saint Ives: The Paintings of Peter Lanyon, 2001, reproduced [p. 46] (colour)
Andrew Lanyon, Peter Lanyon: The Cuttings, 2006, reproduced (colour) unpaginated
Toby Treves, Peter Lanyon: catalogue raisonné of the oil paintings and three-dimensional works, London 2018, cat. 196, reproduced (colour)