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

Rockface under Tryfan, North Wales

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John Piper, C.H. (1903-1992)
Rockface under Tryfan, North Wales
signed 'John Piper' (lower right)
ink, watercolour, gouache and pastel
21 x 26½ in. (53.4 x 67.3 cm.)
Executed in 1950.
来源
Design Research Unit, London.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 22 November 1994, lot 313.
展览
New York, Buchholz Gallery, John Piper: Recent Work, October - November 1950, no. 17.
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Retrospective Exhibition: John Piper, March 1964, no. 98.
Cardiff, Arts Council, Welsh Committee, Llandaff Cathedral, John Piper in Wales, June 1964, no. 36: this exhibition travelled to Swansea, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, June - July; Carmarthen Art Gallery, Old Art School, July - August; Haverfordwest, St Mary's Hall, August - September; Cardiff, Arts Council Gallery, September - October; and Bangor, Art Gallery, October - November.
Coventry, Herbert Art Gallery, Metamorphosis, September - October 1966, no. 46.
London, Mall Galleries, Contemporary Art Society Art Fair, January 1975, no. 118.
London, MacLean Gallery, Art in the City, November 1981, no. 25.
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拍品专文

John Piper's Snowdonia pictures, produced between 1943-50, have found more universal and consistent acclaim than works characterising any other single period of the artist's varied career. The series was the focus of an important 2012 exhibition John Piper: The Mountains of Wales (National Museum, Cardiff). These paintings and drawings were first exhibited as a group at Curt Valentin's Buchholz Gallery, New York in 1948, with a second show in 1950. In the introduction to the catalogue which accompanied the recent Cardiff exhibition, David Fraser Jenkins writes 'It was in Snowdonia in the years after the war that John Piper made what many people have thought were the best of all his paintings, in a series that became a graphic exploration of the mountains ... Most of his pictures were drawings rather than paintings, and began as notes in a sketchbook made on the spot in ink with pen and brush'. The Snowdonia works can easily be located within the continuum of the Romantic tradition of British landscape painting whose luminaries Richard Wilson, John Sell Cotman, David Cox and John Ruskin have been referred to by those who have described and commented upon them, including the artist himself in his own writings.

The rock face in the present work was a favourite subject of Piper's within this series, and several versions exist. A related photograph, also by Piper, appears on the front end-papers of E. Beazley and L. Brett, North Wales: Caernarvonshire, Anglesey, Denbighshire & Flintshire - A Shell Guide, 1971.

We are very grateful to Rev. Dr Stephen Laird FSA for preparing this catalogue entry.

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