拍品专文
Following on from his successful Venetian exhibition at Arthur Jeffress Gallery, Jeffress suggested an exhibition of works based on Rome. Piper 'spent three weeks painting in Rome in February - March 1961, again working rapidly, excited by its architecture, knowing that he was looking at buildings he was unlikely to see again, and having also the stimulus of a specific deadline. The sky was mostly overcast, but the clear grey light emphasised the baked red of the Roman bricks, especially in those monuments which were set against green scrib. As with his Venetian paintings, he used ground colour, freely applied with a large brush, to suggest the mass of a building or large blocks of light and shade. On top of this he drew details often with an almost violent disregard for accuracy' (F. Spalding, John Piper: Myfanwy Piper, Lives in Art, New York, 2009, p. 396).