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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.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.