Artist:
Peter Lanyon
Artwork:
Landscape And Cup (Annunciation)
Size:
32.6 x 40.3 cm
Medium:
Oil on panel
Creation year:
1946
Marks:
Signed 'Peter Lanyon' (lower right); signed again twice and inscribed ' LANDSCAPE AND CUP/Peter Lanyon./LANDSCAPE/AND CUP/Peter Lanyon' (on the reverse)
Category:
Paintings
Provenance:
Sheila Lanyon, and by descent to Jonathan Lanyon, 1975; Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 23 May 1984, lot 229, where purchased by Stanley J. Seeger; His sale; Sotheby's, London, 14 June 2001, lot 80; with Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London, where purchased by the present owner in 2002
Exhibition history:
St Ives, G.R. Downing Bookshop, 1947, no. 2, as 'Annunciation', catalogue not traced; St Ives, New Gallery, Paintings and Sculptures: Sven Berlin, Peter Lanyon, W. Barns-Graham, John Wells: Recent Printings by Guido Morris, August 1947, no. 63, as 'Annunciation', n.p; St Ives, G.R. Downing Bookshop, Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture & Specimens of Printing, September 1947, no. 6, as 'Landscape with Cup', catalogue not traced; London, A.I.A. Centre, Members' Exhibition Part 3, November 1947, no. 2, as 'Landscape and Cup', n.p; London, Redfern Gallery, Summer Exhibition, July - September 1948, no. 88, as 'Landscape and Cup', n.p; London, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Peter Lanyon, March 1991, no. 1, n.p., illustrated; St Ives, Tate Gallery, Peter Lanyon: Generation, October 1994 - January 1995, no. 9, n.p; St Ives, Tate, Peter Lanyon, October 2010 - January 2011, exhibition not numbered, as 'Landscape and Cup', p. 35, illustrated