Modern & Post-War British Art

Modern & Post-War British Art

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John Piper

HOUSE AT NITON, ISLE OF WIGHT

Lot Closed

November 17, 03:34 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

JOHN PIPER

1903 - 1992

HOUSE AT NITON, ISLE OF WIGHT


signed John Piper (lower right)

oil on canvas

unframed: 71 by 92cm.; 28 by 36in.

framed: 85 by 106cm.; 33½ by 41¾in.

Executed in 1954.


We are grateful to Hugh Fowler-Wright and the Estate of the Artist for their kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work. 

New Art Centre, London

Sale, Christie's, London, 8 November 1985, lot 282 (as Green Landscape)

Waterman Fine Art, London, where acquired by M.A. Orden

His sale, Sotheby's, London, 10 June 1998, lot 157, where acquired by the present owner

Malcolm Yorke, The Spirit of Place: Nine Neo-Romantic Artists and their Times, Constable and Company, London, 1988, illustrated on the cover

David Fraser Jenkins & Hugh Fowler-Wright, The Art of John Piper, Unicorn, London, 2016, illustrated p. 252 (detail) & p. 276

Durham, Grey College, John Piper - A Retrospective, 29 April - 15 May 1999, no. 19, p. 10