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John Piper

Viollet, Charente

Auction Closed

November 22, 01:24 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

John Piper

1903 - 1992

Viollet, Charente


signed John Piper (lower right); titled and inscribed (on the reverse)

gouache, ink and watercolour on paper

unframed (sheet): 55.5 by 77cm.; 21¾ by 30¼in.

framed: 74.5 by 95cm.; 29¼ by 37½in.

Executed in 1968.


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

Marlborough Gallery, London

Sale, Christie's London, 9 March 1990, lot 274

Private Collection, Japan, where acquired by the present owner in March 2023

Piper produced another version of this composition as a limited edition screen-print by Kelpra Studio for Marlborough Fine Art in 1968, entitled Floriac.