# Peter Lanyon - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-02T08:44:56.343Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 241
- Lots with prices: 180
- First auction date: 1998-11-06
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-10
- Median realised price: $7,800
- Price range: $350 to $567,000

## Market Takeaway
Peter Lanyon shows deep auction liquidity with 240 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $7,800. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 8 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-10.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($7,800\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $2,500 and $28,000.
- Auction totals can include buyer premiums or fees depending on reporting, so compare like\-for\-like when possible.
- Condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence can move value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 9.4% (17 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 44.4% (80 sales)
- $10,000\+: 46.1% (83 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 8
- Previous 12 months sales: 20
- Recent 12 months median: $5,715
- Previous 12 months median: $4,200
- Median shift: 36.1%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-10
- Days since latest sale: 70
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- Sotheby's: 79 lots
- Bonhams: 76 lots
- Christie's: 50 lots
- Roseberys: 8 lots
- Mallams: 5 lots
- John Moran Auctioneers: 2 lots
- Kinghams Auctioneers: 2 lots
- Lyon & Turnbull: 2 lots
- Adam's: 1 lots
- Barnes Thomas County Auctioneers: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-11-27 | Peter Lanyon, Study for Mullion Bay II, 1954  | Roseberys | £750
2. 2024-11-27 | Peter Lanyon, Study for Porthleven, 1950 | Roseberys | £2,000
3. 2024-11-27 | Peter Lanyon,  Olives at Brindisi, 1945 | Roseberys | £1,200
4. 2025-12-10 | Peter Lanyon \(1918\-1964\), "In the Trees," 1951 | John Moran Auctioneers | $1,905
5. 2025-12-10 | Peter Lanyon \(1918\-1964\), "Church Town, Zennor," 1948 | John Moran Auctioneers | $5,715 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-peter-lanyon-1918-1964-church-town-zennor-1948-1106-c-8bf6678c69
6. 2025-12-10 | Peter Lanyon \(1918\-1964\) Chine Colle, Levant Mine Ruins, Cornwall photogravure with blind stamp lower right 49cm x 39cm. | Mallams | £500
7. 2025-11-19 | Peter Lanyon \(British, 1918\-1964\) Mother and Child 54 x 34.5 cm. \(21 1/4 x 13 1/2 in.\) \(Executed in 1949\) | Bonhams | N/A
8. 2025-10-23 | PETER LANYON \(1918\-1964\). Portrait of Jimmy Limpots. oil on canvas laid on | Christie's | £3,810
9. 2025-06-26 | Peter Lanyon, Pine Shore | Sotheby's | £33,020
10. 2025-03-20 | PETER LANYON \(1918\-1964\). Rooftops, Italy \(Perugia\). pencil, oil wash and w | Christie's | £15,120
11. 2025-03-19 | PETER LANYON \(1918\-1964\). Antigone. oil and gold leaf on canvas72 x 48 in. | Christie's | £378,000
12. 2024-11-27 | Peter Lanyon \(British, 1918\-1964\) The Rialto Bridge | Bonhams | £1,000
13. 2024-11-27 | Peter Lanyon, Mine Drawing, 1954  | Roseberys | £900
14. 2024-11-21 | Peter Lanyon \(British 1918\-1964\) Judy | Dawsons Auctioneers | N/A
15. 2024-10-23 | Peter Lanyon \(English, 1918\-1964\), Untitled, 1954 | Sloane Street Auctions | N/A
16. 2024-10-17 | PETER LANYON \(1918\-1964\). Godrevy Lighthouse. oil on board 20 ½ x 10 ½ in. | Christie's | £50,400
17. 2024-10-17 | PETER LANYON \(1918\-1964\). Untitled. watercolour and gouache on paper 11 ½ x | Christie's | £9,450
18. 2024-10-16 | PETER LANYON \(1918\-1964\). Fly Away. oil on canvas 48 x 72 in. \(121.9 x 182. | Christie's | £478,800
19. 2024-06-19 | Peter Lanyon \(British, 1918\-1964\) Untitled \(Tall Narrow Landscape\) 32.1 x 8.6 cm. \(12 5/8 x 3 3/8 in.\) \(Executed circa 1959\) | Bonhams | £11,000
20. 2024-06-07 | Chair in Naples | Sotheby's | N/A
21. 2024-03-27 | Peter Lanyon \(British, 1918\-1964\) Constructivist Design | Bonhams | £4,200
22. 2024-03-27 | Peter Lanyon \(British, 1918\-1964\) A Postcard of Penzance | Bonhams | £2,800 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-peter-lanyon-british-1918-1964-a-postcard-of-penzance-83-c-3704b79a55
23. 2024-03-27 | Peter Lanyon \(British, 1918\-1964\) Untitled \(Farmhouse\) Painted circa 1936 \(with a further oil on panel, Untitled \(Bare Trees\), painted in 1939, on the reverse, by the same hand\) | Bonhams | N/A
24. 2024-03-21 | PETER LANYON \(1918\-1964\) Small Landscape No. 8 gouache on paper 5 5⁄8 x 6 ½ | Christie's | £16,380

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