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Monsoon: The Peter Simon Collection Evening Sale
Christie’s, London · London
14 October 2026
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Peter Lanyon
Peter Lanyon (1918–1964) was a painter from St Ives whose increasingly abstract work remained rooted in the landscape and working life of west Cornwall. He also made constructions. Gliding gave him new ways to experience the coast, weather and air, which became central to his later paintings.
Sources: British Council: Peter Lanyon · The Courtauld: gliding paintings. Checked 30 September 2026.
Collections, archives and selected bibliography
Public collections
- British Council Collection
Includes Low Tide and Ground Wind October 1961.
- Tate
Collection records and selected archive material.
Archives and resources
- Adrian Flowers Archive: Peter Lanyon
Photographic archive essay on Lanyon; image reuse requires its own permission.
Selected bibliography
Collection holdings do not necessarily indicate what is currently on display. Check the institution before visiting.
Upcoming auction lots
Selected works checked against the official catalogues. Browse this artist’s lots →
Cloud Base
Peter Lanyon · 1962
Oil on canvas. 121.9 × 182.8 cm.
Why it merits attention
A painting from Lanyon’s gliding years, when flight changed how he represented landscape. Its reverse dates it to May 1962; Christie’s connects the central diagonal motif with his Porthmeor Mural, then in progress. That link places the canvas within a larger experiment in pictorial space.
Source: Christie’s catalogueEstimate £450,000–£650,000
Monsoon: The Peter Simon Collection Evening Sale · London
Catalogue checked 30 September 2026. Estimates exclude fees and taxes; confirm availability with the auction house.
Exhibitions, viewings and auction dates
From checked exhibition and sale announcements.
Timeline
PETER LANYON (1918-1964) Cloud Base signed and dated 'Lanyon/62' (centre right), signed again, inscribed and dated again 'CLOUD/BASE/Lanyon May 62' (on the reverse) oil on canvas 48 x 72 in. (121.9 x 182.8 cm.) Painted in 1962Christie's Source. Peter Lanyon’s Cloud Base leads our picks from the Peter Simon collection
An rare early Ben Nicholson relief, an early carved Hepworth torso, Bomberg’s sensational Toledo and an Auerbach charcoal head give Christie’s October sale an exceptionally strong British contingent.
Books and scholarship
Peter Lanyon: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings and Three-Dimensional Works
Toby Treves · Modern Art Press
8 February 2018
An established reference cataloguing Lanyon’s oil paintings and three-dimensional works. Included as further reading, not a new publication.
Checked 30 September 2026.