John Piper
Bolton Castle, 1940
Oil on board
Approximately 15 x 24 inches
£85,000.00
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Signed front and titled verso Oil on board Approximate size: 15 x 24 inches Bolton Castle is a major work by John Piper from one of his most fruitful periods...
Signed front and titled verso
Oil on board
Approximate size: 15 x 24 inches
Bolton Castle is a major work by John Piper from one of his most fruitful periods when the foundations of his renown were laid down. Piper, together with Henry Moore and Graham Sutherland, “dominated the art of the Second World War” Robert Crawford, Director General, Imperial War Museum. More powerfully than any other British artist since Turner and Cotman, he transformed what he saw into a personal vision of architecture. “The paintings of 1940 – 42 were indeed one of the moments of reconstruction in British art”, John Piper, The Forties, David Fraser Jenkins.
Exhibitions
Exhibited: Portland Gallery, (on loan), The Art of John Piper, 23 June – 22, July, 2016, cat. No.17.