JOHN PIPER, C.H. (1903-1992)

By 1950, John Piper had moved his main artistic attention from the mountains and valleys of Snowdonia to aspects of the coastal (but no less wild) landscapes of Anglesey (North Wales) and - on the South Coast of England - Portland, Dungeness, Clymping and Keyhaven (near Hurst Castle). In these places Piper's eye (just as it had been in the late 1930s) was attracted to man-made objects including older and more recent fortifications and other forms of stonework along with maritime paraphernalia, the shapes and textures of which seem to have re-ignited the artist's leanings towards structure and abstraction.

We are very grateful to Rev. Dr Stephen Laird F.S.A. for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.