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PETER LANYON (BRITISH, 1918-1964)
White Square, New Jersey
signed, titled and dated 'Lanyon/ White Square/ New Jersey/62' (on the backboard)
gouache on paper
25 x 35cm
ARR
Provenance
Gimpel Fils, London;
Art of Man Gallery, Sydney;
Private collection, Newcastle, Australia;
Sale, Shapiro, Sydney, 19th August 2015, lot 39;
Rowntree Clark;
Private collection, UK
Exhibited
London, Gimpel Fils, June 1968, no.32
| Estimate: | £10,000 - £15,000 |
Lanyon spent seven months in New Jersey in 1962 having been commissioned to paint a mural at Bois d'Arc, the Frenchtown home of art collector Stanley Seeger. Seeger had been instrumental in Lanyon's career in the United States, having introduced him to Catherine Viviano who staged his first solo New York show at her gallery on East 57th Street in 1957. It was at this time that Lanyon met Robert Motherwell and Mark Rothko, the latter's work providing particular inspiration.
Lanyon had served in the RAF during WWII as a flight mechanic; in his quest to explore landscape from new perspectives, he took up gliding in 1959 and tragically died following a crash landing near Honiton, Devon in 1964.
Condition Report
The sheet appears to have been adhered to the backing board and undulates slightly; creases to the centre right border and upper right corner; minor discolouration to unpainted areas of paper; otherwise good, original condition; held in the original frame, under glass, unexamined out of frame.