John Piper
Fishing Boats near Newhaven
, ca 1932
oil on canvas with collage
18 x 22 in / 45.7 x 55.9 cm
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Provenance
Myfanwy Piper
Private Collection, UK
John Piper
Study for Walter De La Mare, The Traveller
, c.1945
watercolour on paper
12 x 14 1/2 in / 30.5 x 36.8 cm
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Literature
Walter De La Mare, The Traveller, with drawings by John Piper and lithographed at the Baynard Press, Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1946, ill. 8, 12, 20, 30
John Piper
Study for Walter De La Mare, The Traveller
, c.1945
watercolour on paper
inscribed top left 'Branched veins of sanguine on a milk-pale stone'
11 3/4 x 16 1/2 in / 29.8 x 41.9 cm
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Literature
Walter De La Mare, The Traveller, with drawings by John Piper and lithographed at the Baynard Press, Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1946, ill. 8, 12, 20, 30
John Piper
Study for Walter De La Mare, The Traveller
, c.1945
watercolour & chalk on paper
12 x 16 in / 30.5 x 40.6 cm
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Literature
Walter De La Mare, The Traveller, with drawings by John Piper and lithographed at the Baynard Press, Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1946, ill. 8, 12, 20, 30
John Piper
Study for Walter De La Mare, The Traveller
, c.1945
watercolour & chalk on paper
12 x 16 in / 30.5 x 40.6 cm
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Literature
Walter De La Mare, The Traveller, with drawings by John Piper and lithographed at the Baynard Press, Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1946, ill. 8, 12, 20, 30
John Piper
Abstract
, c.1936
oil on canvas
22 x 27 in / 55.9 x 68.6 cm
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John Piper
Portland
, 1950
oil on canvas
signed lower right
24 x 29 1/2 in / 61 x 74.9 cm
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Exhibitions
Buchholz Gallery, New York
Literature
S. John Woods, John Piper, 1955, no. 160, illus.
John Piper
Drawing for a Construction
, 1934
collage, ink & gouache on paper
14 1/2 x 19 in / 36.8 x 48.3 cm
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Exhibitions
Ulster Museum, John Piper, 1967, no. 19
Tate Gallery, John Piper, 1983, no. 14
Dulwich Picture Gallery, John Piper in the 1930's, 2003, travelling to Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham, no. 27
Literature
David Fraser Jenkins & Frances Spalding, John Piper in the 1930s: Abstraction on the Beach, Merrell, London, 2003, p. 107, no. 27
John Piper
Beach Huts
, 1933
gouache & collage on paper
signed & dated verso
15 x 17 in / 38.1 x 43.2 cm
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Exhibitions
Scottish Arts Council, Art Then, 1974, no. 45
Literature
S. John Woods, John Piper, 1955, pl. 7
Richard Ingrams, Piper's Places, 1983, p. 28, pl. 15
John Piper
Dungeness Girls
, 1933
oil on canvas
signed lower left
30 x 20 in / 76.2 x 50.8 cm
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Exhibitions
Zwemmer Gallery, 1934
Arts Council, British Art and the Modern Movement, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, 1962, no. 26
Literature
Anthony West, John Piper 1979, no. 14
John Piper
Public Bar
, 1933
gouache & collage on paper
signed, inscribed & dated
15 x 19 1/4 in / 38.1 x 48.9 cm
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Provenance
The Artist's family
Exhibitions
Temple Newsam, Leeds, First Exhibition of Three British Artists, Moore, Piper and Sutherland, 1941
Tate Gallery, London, John Piper, 1983. no. 53
oil & collage on canvas
25 x 30 in / 63.5 x 76.2 cm
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Literature
S. John Woods, John Piper, 1955, no. 10, illus.