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拍品專文
Carn Euny and St Agnes Beacon (lot 114) were acquired directly from Lanyon by Glaswegian art dealer Cyril Gerber, and remained in his personal collection throughout his life. Gerber made a unique contribution to the visual arts in Scotland. He was one of the founders of the New Charing Cross Gallery in 1963, and in 1969, he and his wife Betty set up the Compass Gallery in Glasgow. The gallery was renowned for its support of talented new graduates, and was responsible for bringing a huge range of artists to a Scottish audience. Alongside this, he opened Cyril Gerber Fine Art in 1983, which focused on 20th Century British artists, from the Glasgow School, the Scottish Colourists, the Bloomsbury Group and the St Ives School.
Carn Euny is a well-preserved ancient village near Sancreed, West Cornwall, which was inhabited from the Iron Age to the end of the Roman occupation of Britain. The village is known particularly for its example of a ‘fogou’ (underground stone-walled passage), a unique structure which has only been found in West Cornwall. In his alphabetical record book, Peter Lanyon linked his painting Landscape with Cross, which is thought to represent the Derbyshire dales, to ‘the landscape near Carn Euny’ (the artist quoted in T. Treves, Peter Lanyon: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings and Three-Dimensional Works, London, 2018, p. 353). He drew a parallel between the mining culture and ancient history of Bakewell, in Derbyshire, and Cornwall, in particular West Penwith, remarking that in both places he could sense ‘the sort of thrust of history, as it were underneath one’s feet’ (the artist quoted in T. Treves, Peter Lanyon: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings and Three-Dimensional Works, London, 2018, p. 353).
In the present work, Lanyon has introduced collage using canvas and thin rods, which has produced a rough surface texture to reflect the uneven stone formations of Carn Euny. The colour palette, too, may allude to elements of Carn Euny: the green and blue for the grass and sky; black for the outlines of the stone arrangements seen from above or for the stone walls from inside the ‘fogou’; and white for the daylight seen from inside the ‘fogou’ through its openings.
Carn Euny is a well-preserved ancient village near Sancreed, West Cornwall, which was inhabited from the Iron Age to the end of the Roman occupation of Britain. The village is known particularly for its example of a ‘fogou’ (underground stone-walled passage), a unique structure which has only been found in West Cornwall. In his alphabetical record book, Peter Lanyon linked his painting Landscape with Cross, which is thought to represent the Derbyshire dales, to ‘the landscape near Carn Euny’ (the artist quoted in T. Treves, Peter Lanyon: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings and Three-Dimensional Works, London, 2018, p. 353). He drew a parallel between the mining culture and ancient history of Bakewell, in Derbyshire, and Cornwall, in particular West Penwith, remarking that in both places he could sense ‘the sort of thrust of history, as it were underneath one’s feet’ (the artist quoted in T. Treves, Peter Lanyon: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings and Three-Dimensional Works, London, 2018, p. 353).
In the present work, Lanyon has introduced collage using canvas and thin rods, which has produced a rough surface texture to reflect the uneven stone formations of Carn Euny. The colour palette, too, may allude to elements of Carn Euny: the green and blue for the grass and sky; black for the outlines of the stone arrangements seen from above or for the stone walls from inside the ‘fogou’; and white for the daylight seen from inside the ‘fogou’ through its openings.