Greystone

Peter Lanyon (1918 - 1964)

Ashmolean Museum

1953

The work encapsulates the essence of the Cornish landscape. The paint recalls the granite of outcrops, boulders, hedges and the signs of prehistoric occupation, the whitewash and slate of housing, the green of field and cliff top, and the yellow of mustard or gorse.

• Medium: oil on board
• Dimensions: 39 x 22.5cm
• Art Fund Grant: £5500 ( Total: £16,000)
• ArtFunded in: 2001
• Vendor: Spink-Leger Pictures

Provenance

Private collection acquired directly from the artist to 1999; Sotheby's 1999.

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