Dark Mine Coast

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Born in St Ives, Peter Lanyon studied at Penzance School of Art (1937). In 1939 he met Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Naum Gabo who had settled in St Ives. After 1950, Lanyon’s work remained abstract yet inspired by the Cornish landscape and by the exhibition of American Abstract Expressionism at the Tate (1956). During his solo show in New York (1957) Lanyon met Mark Rothko who later visited him in St Ives. In 1959 Lanyon took up gliding, mainly as a way of getting to know the landscape better – many of his late paintings were based on his aerial experiences. Tragically, injuries sustained in a gliding accident caused Lanyon’s death in December 1964.

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Materials & Techniques

Artist

Peter Lanyon (1918 - 1964)

Title

Dark Mine Coast

Date

June 1964

Medium

Gouache on paper

Dimensions

height: 76.40 cm, width: 57.80 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Basil Jacobs Fine Art, December 1971

Inscription

bc: Lanyon 64 verso: TOP^ / DARK MINE COAST 0219 / Lanyon June 64 / Gouache

GAC number

9428