Little Bracken

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PETER LANYON (1918-1964)
Little Bracken
signed 'Peter Lanyon' (lower right), signed again, inscribed and dated 'LITTLE/BRACKEN/Peter Lanyon/51./ATTIC STUDIO/ST IVES' (on the reverse)
oil and pencil on board, relief, in the artist's frame
14 x 5 7/8 in. (35.5 x 15 cm.)
Painted in 1951.

Provenance

A gift from the artist to Jeremy Le Grice, and by descent.

Literature

A. Causey, Peter Lanyon: His Painting, Henley-on-Thames, 1971, p. 46, no. 32.
T. Treves, Peter Lanyon: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings and Three-Dimensional Works, London, 2018, p. 232, no. 275, illustrated.

Exhibited

St Ives, Bookshop of G.R. Downing, Peter Lanyon: Exhibition of Paintings from Penwith, June 1951, no. 7.
London, Gimpel Fils, British Abstract Art, August 1951, no. 40.
London, Gimpel Fils, Peter Lanyon: Oils and Gouaches, March 1952, no. 19.
Oxford, Black Hall, Seven British Contemporary Artists, May 1952, no. 8.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

The painter Jeremy Le Grice was a friend of Lanyon’s and had been a student at St Peter’s Loft, the art school in St Ives that Lanyon ran with William Redgrave from 1954 to 1960. Some years later, during a visit to his studio at Little Parc Owles, Lanyon invited Le Grice to choose a painting as a gift. Le Grice chose Little Bracken, and Lanyon went to some trouble to frame the painting himself for his friend.

We are very grateful to Toby Treves for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.

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