Lot Essay
This is one of two portraits of Jimmy Limpots that Lanyon painted while at the St Ives School of Painting in the second half of 1938. Limpots was a local fisherman who occasionally sat as a life model.
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Portrait of Jimmy Limpots
Details
PETER LANYON (1918-1964)
Portrait of Jimmy Limpots
with studio stamp (on the backboard)
oil on canvas laid on board
24 ¾ x 19 ¾ in. (62.8 x 50.2 cm.)
Painted in 1938.
Portrait of Jimmy Limpots
with studio stamp (on the backboard)
oil on canvas laid on board
24 ¾ x 19 ¾ in. (62.8 x 50.2 cm.)
Painted in 1938.
Provenance
with New Craftsman, St Ives, where purchased by the present owner in July 1998.
Literature
A. Lanyon, Saint Ives: The Paintings of Peter Lanyon, St Ives, 2001, p. 27, illustrated.
T. Treves, Peter Lanyon: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings and Three-Dimensional Works, London, 2018, p. 121, no. 102, illustrated, as 'Untitled (Portrait of Jimmy Lempotts)', dated 1938.
T. Treves, Peter Lanyon: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings and Three-Dimensional Works, London, 2018, p. 121, no. 102, illustrated, as 'Untitled (Portrait of Jimmy Lempotts)', dated 1938.
Further details
We are very grateful to Toby Treves for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.
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