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Peter Lanyon

Portreath

On Loan
Wakefield Permanent Art Collection (The Hepworth Wakefield)
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B.1918 | D.1964

charcoal wash
54.2 x 47.1 cm (21 3/8 x 18 1/2 in.)
Executed in 1949.

Wakefield Permanent Art Collection (The Hepworth Wakefield). Gifted by Friends of Wakefield Art Gallery and Museums, 1971.

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Wakefield Permanent Art Collection (The Hepworth Wakefield). Gifted by Friends of Wakefield Art Gallery and Museums, 1971.

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Essay

Portreath is a fishing village in Cornwall that appears repeatedly in drawings and paintings by Peter Lanyon, who was born in nearby St Ives. Lanyon was well known within the artistic community for immersing himself totally in the Cornish landscape – walking through coastal storms, exploring the subterranean world of mineshafts, gliding through the skies and scaling vertical cliffs. This was fundamental to Lanyon’s approach to abstraction, born of
‘disturbing one’s own sense of being fixed in relation to a place’.

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