Knowlton, Dorset

Details

John Piper, C.H. (1903-1992)
Knowlton, Dorset
signed 'John Piper' (lower right)
pencil, ink and mixed media collage
15½ x 19 in. (39.3 x 48.2 cm.)
Executed circa 1938.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

In the late 1930s and early 1940s Piper made some conventional drawings of the ruins of Knowlton church, a ruin which is situated on the site of a neolithic ritual 'henge'. This Knowlton collage from the Gyselynck collection is of particular interest as the detailed vertical rhythm of form and colour seen in the left hand part of the ruin is strongly evocative of one of Piper's purely abstract paintings of the mid-1930s.
We are very grateful to Rev. Dr. Stephen Laird for his assistance in cataloguing the present lot and lots 333, 345-347 and 476-477.

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