Live Auction 7751Modern British and Irish Art
John Piper, C.H. (1903-1992)
Lot 345 Property from the collection of the late Michael Gyselynck

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

Variation: Scene from Raphael's The Expulsion of Heliodorus

Closed14 December 2012

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John Piper, C.H. (1903-1992)
Variation: Scene from Raphael's The Expulsion of Heliodorus
signed 'John Piper' (lower right)
ink and gouache
13½ x 17½ in. (34.3 x 44.4 cm.)
Executed circa 1951-52.

with Brook Street Gallery, London.
Mr. W. Taylor.

Specialist note

The present work is part of a distinctive group of variations on Old Master paintings which Piper produced in the early 1950s. Piper made his own versions of well-known works by Rubens, Raphael, Mantegna and Poussin, among others.
S.L.