Yellow nude

The artist commented on his nude studies: 'There is a certain sort of beauty in the nude woman which I want to try and get in these drawings ... the longer drawings of females where there may be a stretch right across a thigh and a leg which would lead to paintings of very long landscapes where I would stretch myself ... this line might take me out in the car to the landscape, and I might experience this again, and by having drawn this dune, I would experience it sensuously, the sort of experience one would have perhaps by some sexual contact, but in this case transformed to an understanding of a landscape' (see A. Lanyon, Peter Lanyon 1918-1964, Newlyn, 1990, p. 177).