Boxted Monument, Suffolk

Details

John Piper, C.H. (1903-1992)
Boxted Monument, Suffolk
signed 'John Piper' (lower right) and inscribed 'Boxted (Suffolk) Monuments' (on the reverse)
pen, brush, black ink, watercolour and collage
20½ x 26 in. (52.1 x 66 cm.)
Executed in 1946-47

Literature

S. John Woods (intro.), John Piper, Paintings, Drawings and Theatre Designs 1932-1954, London, 1955, p. 155, pl. 165.

Exhibited

New York, Bucholz Gallery, John Piper, February 1948, no. 35, illustrated.
Washington, D.C., Phillips Memorial Gallery, John Piper Recent Paintings, March-April 1948, no. 16.

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Lot Essay

Following the Second World War Piper made a number of studies of monuments, including that at Boxted in Suffolk. He recalled, 'I thought they made such beautiful compositions of lights and darks' (see R. Ingrams and J. Piper, Piper's Places, London, 1983, p. 122).

The present work was reproduced as a screenprint in the artist's Stones and Bones series in 1978, no. XX (see O. Levinson, 'Quality and Experiment' The Prints of John Piper, London, 1996, no. 309, p. 114).

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