JOHN PIPER | LA BELLE VERRIÈRE, CHARTRES
Auction Closed
March 17, 04:17 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
JOHN PIPER
1903-1992
LA BELLE VERRIÈRE, CHARTRES
signed; titled on reverse
gouache, wax resist, pastel and ink on paper
57 by 39.5cm.; 22½ by 15½in.
Executed by 1980.
Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames, where acquired by the family of the present owner
Oxfordshire, Dorchester Abbey, John Piper and the Church, 21st April - 10th June 2012, illustrated p.52.
'The messages of the windows at Chartres - their meaning as a Bible for the illiterate - has little significance for us in comparison with their transforming effect on the architecture of the interior, their creation of an enclosed, escapist world of colour and modified light.'
- John Piper, quoted in Stained Glass: Art or Anti-Art, Studio Vista, 1968