Lot Essay
'There is a total commitment in all Peter Lanyon's drawings and gouaches; an intense energy catapults ideas pell-mell on to paper. Knowing of his enthusiasm for gliding one perceives his landscapes as he did - as a kaleidoscope of fragments, flashes of water and land seen in passing, shifting patterns visually contained within the boundaries of steering mechanism and windshield. The silent, sweeping motion of the gliding craft both ignited the turbulence of Lanyon's imagination and contained it' (B. Enos, Arts Review, November 1969, quoted in A. Lanyon, Peter Lanyon 1918-1964, Newlyn, 1990, p.321).