Peter Lanyon
Red Body Country No. 2
About this artwork
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artist:Peter Lanyon (1918 - 1964) English
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title:Red Body Country No. 2
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date created:1952
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materials:Gouache on paper
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measurements:57.50 x 46.00 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Bequeathed by Mr Ken Powell 2006 [received 2008]
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accession number:GMA 5061
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Peter Lanyon
Peter Lanyon
Lanyon was born in St Ives, Cornwall. He was friends with the artists Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Naum Gabo, who moved to the St Ives area in 1939. Although Lanyon's work from the late-1940s onwards appears to be entirely abstract, its point of reference is the Cornish and West Country...
