
Peter Lanyon
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- Is PublishedManual· 100%✓
- Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
- NationalityArtsy· 85%✓
Source Registry (2)
- TateTier 3 · Scraped/inferred85%
- Artsy (bulk)Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred85%
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Why this artist matters now
George Peter Lanyon was a British painter of landscapes leaning heavily towards abstraction. Lanyon was one of the most important artists to emerge in post-war Britain. Despite his early death at the age of forty-six he achieved a body of work that is amongst the most original and important reappraisals of modernism in painting to be found anywhere. Combining abstract values with radical ideas about landscape and the figure, Lanyon navigated a course from Constructivism through Abstract Expressionism to a style close to Pop. He also made constructions, pottery and collage.
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Artworks (1)
Artwork sources (2)
- Cleveland Museum of Art1 published
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Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 1)
- 1957 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number


