Lot 65
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John Piper, C.H. (1903-1992)
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John Piper, C.H. (1903-1992)

Pistyll Rhaidr

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John Piper, C.H. (1903-1992)
Pistyll Rhaidr
signed 'John Piper' (lower right)
black ink, wax resist, black crayon, watercolour and bodycolour
19¾ x 14¾ in. (50.2 x 37.5 cm.)
Executed in 1945.
Provenance
with Agnew's, London.
Exhibited
London, Marlborough Fine Art, John Piper Retrospective Exhibition, 1967, no. 57.
Newtown, Powys, Oriel 31 Davies Memorial Gallery, John Piper in Wales, July - August 1990, no. 23: this exhibition toured to Cardiff, National Museum of Wales; Llandudno, Oriel Mostyn.
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Lot Essay

During the early 1940s, Piper returned to the subject of waterfalls in Wales on several occasions. In 1944, for example, he illustrated a volume of verse called 'English Scottish and Welsh Landscape', for which he made a series of lithographs relating to this theme. He also executed an image of Pistyll Rhaidr in 1940, in which the similarities are clear to this one of 1945 (see Anthony West, John Piper, London, 1979, p. 138).

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