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

In the summer of 1934, Piper began work on a series of roughly 10 abstract relief constructions, of which only three remain today. Piper described these works as 'The nearest I ever got to sculpture' (G. Power, R. Swift and E. Cunningham, John Piper, London, 1979, p. 35). In the present lot, the top two studies are compositionally similar to Construction, Intersection, 1934 (Tate Gallery), while the lower sheet appears to be a more rhythmic version of Construction, 1934, which was dismantled and reconstructed by Piper in 1967 (Tate Gallery).