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Lot 69*,AR

John Piper C.H.
(British, 1903-1992)
Park Place 45.1 x 61 cm. (17 3/4 x 24 in.)

28 May 2014, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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

Park Place
signed 'John Piper' (lower right); further signed, inscribed and dated 'PARK PLACE/oil(1944)/John Piper/Fawley Bottom/Nr Henley-on-Thames/Oxon' (verso)
oil on canvas laid on panel
45.1 x 61 cm. (17 3/4 x 24 in.)

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Provenance
Mr. C.S. Collinson, Dublin, 1957, from whom acquired by
Private Collection, and by descent
Their sale; Christie's, London, 26 May 2011, where acquired by the present owner

Park Place is a lavish 18th century private residence in the parish of Remenham, Berkshire, near Henley-on-Thames. Piper lived nearby and painted rural Oxfordshire often, most notably for the Shell Guide to Oxfordshire in 1938. The present oil depicts the boathouse and 'Conway' bridge on the estate, with a fittingly moody wartime atmosphere. Piper's visionary approach to landscape extends the 18th century Romantic tradition, championed by artists such as Joseph Mallord William Turner, John Constable and Thomas Gainsborough. Indeed Piper was most probably aware that Gainsborough's brother Humphrey designed the bridge depicted, a fact that very well may have drawn the artist to this particular subject. His reference to a distinctly English landscape and artistic tradition was a fitting response to the instability that Britain was suffering under the attack of Nazi Germany.

There is a lithograph of the same title illustrated in English, Scottish and Welsh Landscape, and a second oil, Park Place, Henley-on-Thames (1941, Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums).

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