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JOHN PIPER, C.H. (1903-1992)

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ID 922655
Lot 234 | JOHN PIPER, C.H. (1903-1992)
JOHN PIPER, C.H. (1903-1992)

The Garden at Stourhead

signed 'John Piper' (lower left)

watercolour, gouache, ink and collage on paper

16 x 21 7/8 in. (40.6 x 55.6 cm.)

Executed in 1939.





Provenance

Myfanwy Piper.

with Jonathan Clark Fine Art, London.

Anonymous sale; Phillips, London, 9 June 1998, lot 6, where purchased by the present owner.



Literature

R. Ingrams and J. Piper, Piper's Places: John Piper in England and Wales, London, 1983, p. 62, pl. 46, as 'Stourhead, Wiltshire,1940, Bristol High Cross and Pantheon'.

Exhibition catalogue, John Piper: Georgian Arcadia, London, Marlborough Fine Art, 1987, p. 12, no. 3, illustrated, as 'Bristol High Cross and Pantheon, Stourhead, 1940'.

D.F. Jenkins and F. Spalding, exhibition catalogue, John Piper in the 1930s: Abstraction on the Beach, London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2003, p. 172, no. 80, illustrated.



Exhibited

London, Tate Gallery, John Piper, November 1983 - January 1984, no. 36.

London, Marlborough Fine Art, John Piper: Georgian Arcadia, September - October 1987, no. 3, as 'Bristol High Cross and Pantheon, Stourhead, 1940'.

London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, John Piper in the 1930s: Abstraction on the Beach, April - June 2003, no. 80: this exhibition travelled to Nottingham, Djanogly Art Gallery, July - September 2003.



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