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John Piper

Cwm Idwal and Llyn Idwal

Lot Closed

March 16, 12:33 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

John Piper

1903 - 1992

Cwm Idwal and Llyn Idwal


signed John Piper (lower left)

oil on canvas

unframed: 64 by 76.5cm.; 25¼ by 30¼in.

framed: 84 by 97.5cm.; 33 by 38½in.

Executed in 1947.


We are grateful to Hugh Fowler-Wright for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.


The present work relates to a mixed media version of the same view which is now in the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, and was previously in the collection of Kenneth Clark. 

Gifted by the Artist to his niece, Joy Piper in 1948, and thence by family descent