Lot 786
‡JOHN PIPER, CH (1903-1992)
THREE SOMERSET TOWERS: RUISHTON, ILE ABBOTTS [sic], KINGSBURY EPISCOPI
Three, signed and titled and dated 1954 on the backboard, mixed media, on three sheets, framed as one
Each 68 x 35cm.
Provenance: London Marlborough Fine Art; London, Browse & Darby
Exhibited: London, Marlborough Fine Art, John Piper Retrospective Exhibition, March-April 1964, no.203
* Piper's enduring fascination with the glories of British ecclesiastical architecture drew him inevitably towards the noble and soaring towers of churches. His Neo-Romantic sensibilities ensured that the grandeur of these ancient buildings was captured with skill but without painstaking fussiness in the depiction of the buildings' myriad intricate details. Piper's evident admiration for the stonemason's craft blends with a subtlety of colour and line to produce images that seem to shimmer in a haze of history.
