Pencil, watercolour and gouache on paper Titled lower left 35 x 21.3 cm. (13 5/8 x 8 3/8 in) Executed circa 1970. Provenance: Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames (label on the reverse) John Egerton Christmas Piper, known as John Piper was born on 13 December 1903 in Epsom. He is considered to be one of the most significant British artists of the 20th Century and is best-known for his prints and paintings of the romantic heritage of Britain such as landscapes, views of ruined churches and castles. After studying first at the Richmond School of Art and then under Sir William Rothenstein at the Royal College of Art, Piper earned his living mainly writing art reviews. He worked from 1928 to 1933 as an art critic for the “Listener and the Nation” and took a leading role in the recognition of contemporary avant-garde artists such as Ivon Hitchens Victor Pasmore and Ceri Richards His time as an art critic appeared to be a door-opener for his artistic career and he gained step-by step access to the contemporary art scene, and joined the group of artists around Ben Nicholson Henry Moore Howard Hodgkin and Barbara Hepworth From a very early age, John Piper was fascinated and intrigued by church buildings - an interest which carried through Piper’s whole creative life as an artist: From 1940 to 1944, Piper was working as an Official War Artist for the British War Artists' Advisory Committee. During this time, he produced a collection of paintings of bomb-damaged churches and those in decay. After the Second World War, John Piper’s oeuvre was determined by the depiction of “pleasing” decaying (church) buildings. He also produced several projects in stained-glass, tapestries and vestments, for example a series of drawings of Windsor Castle in 1941 for HM The Queen, who later became the Queen Mother; stained glass windows for the new Coventry Cathedral; and the windows for Eton College Chapel. In celebration of his 80th birthday, the Tate Gallery held a retrospective of John Piper's work in 1983. He died in Fawley Bottom, Oxfordshire, on 27 June 1992. Condition report disclaimer
Pencil, watercolour and gouache on paper Titled lower left 35 x 21.3 cm. (13 5/8 x 8 3/8 in) Executed circa 1970. Provenance: Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames (label on the reverse) John Egerton Christmas Piper, known as John Piper was born on 13 December 1903 in Epsom. He is considered to be one of the most significant British artists of the 20th Century and is best-known for his prints and paintings of the romantic heritage of Britain such as landscapes, views of ruined churches and castles. After studying first at the Richmond School of Art and then under Sir William Rothenstein at the Royal College of Art, Piper earned his living mainly writing art reviews. He worked from 1928 to 1933 as an art critic for the “Listener and the Nation” and took a leading role in the recognition of contemporary avant-garde artists such as Ivon Hitchens Victor Pasmore and Ceri Richards His time as an art critic appeared to be a door-opener for his artistic career and he gained step-by step access to the contemporary art scene, and joined the group of artists around Ben Nicholson Henry Moore Howard Hodgkin and Barbara Hepworth From a very early age, John Piper was fascinated and intrigued by church buildings - an interest which carried through Piper’s whole creative life as an artist: From 1940 to 1944, Piper was working as an Official War Artist for the British War Artists' Advisory Committee. During this time, he produced a collection of paintings of bomb-damaged churches and those in decay. After the Second World War, John Piper’s oeuvre was determined by the depiction of “pleasing” decaying (church) buildings. He also produced several projects in stained-glass, tapestries and vestments, for example a series of drawings of Windsor Castle in 1941 for HM The Queen, who later became the Queen Mother; stained glass windows for the new Coventry Cathedral; and the windows for Eton College Chapel. In celebration of his 80th birthday, the Tate Gallery held a retrospective of John Piper's work in 1983. He died in Fawley Bottom, Oxfordshire, on 27 June 1992. Condition report disclaimer
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