John Piper 1903-1992

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Publications

<span class="title">Fishing Boats near Newhaven<span class="title_comma">, </span></span><span class="year">ca 1932</span>

<span class="title">Study for Walter De La Mare, The Traveller<span class="title_comma">, </span></span><span class="year">c.1945</span>

<span class="title">Abstract<span class="title_comma">, </span></span><span class="year">c.1936</span>

<span class="title">Portland<span class="title_comma">, </span></span><span class="year">1950</span>

<span class="title">Drawing for a Construction<span class="title_comma">, </span></span><span class="year">1934</span>

<span class="title">Beach Huts<span class="title_comma">, </span></span><span class="year">1933</span>

<span class="title">Dungeness Girls<span class="title_comma">, </span></span><span class="year">1933</span>

<span class="title">Public Bar<span class="title_comma">, </span></span><span class="year">1933</span>

<span class="title">Selsey<span class="title_comma">, </span></span><span class="year">1933</span>

Fishing Boats near Newhaven, ca 1932
Study for Walter De La Mare, The Traveller, c.1945
Study for Walter De La Mare, The Traveller, c.1945
Study for Walter De La Mare, The Traveller, c.1945
Study for Walter De La Mare, The Traveller, c.1945
Abstract, c.1936
Portland, 1950
Drawing for a Construction, 1934
Beach Huts, 1933
Dungeness Girls, 1933
Public Bar, 1933
Selsey, 1933

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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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Myfanwy Piper

Private Collection, UK

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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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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

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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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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

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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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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

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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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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

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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.

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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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Provenance

Myfanwy Piper

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

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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

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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

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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

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John Piper

Selsey, 1933

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.

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