●Peter Lanyon
'Abbotsbury Susan, 1958'oil on masonite
32¾ x 8¾ ins (83.1 x 22.1 cms)
signed, dated '58Signed, inscribed & dated verso
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Provenance:
Catherine Viviano Gallery, New York - Mr Stanley Seeger
Andrew Causey, Peter Lanyon: His Paintings 1971, Page 55
His first one-man exhibition in New York was held in 1957 a year before 'Abbotsbury Susan' was painted. The exhibition was extremely well received and Lanyon was accepted as an equal by the American painters who were just beginning to win an international reputation. He and Mark Rothko became good friends, and Lanyon brought Rothko to St Ives in August 1958 to look for a chapel in the West Penrith landscape, which Rothko could decorate. It is likely that they travelled through Abbbotsbury in Dorset during this period.
'Abbotsbury Susan' alludes to the shared ideas between Rothko and Lanyon and the American influence began to speed Lanyon's development towards a looser style and a more open kind of painting.
Exhibited:
Princeton University Art Museum, Stanley Seeger Coll 1961, No 99
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