Name: JOHN PIPER, C.H. (EPSOM 1903-1992 FAWLEY BOTTOM)
Brand: View of Byland Abbey, Yorkshire
Price: 2400.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

JOHN PIPER, C.H. (EPSOM 1903-1992 FAWLEY BOTTOM)
View of Byland Abbey, Yorkshire
signed 'John Piper' (lower right), inscribed 'Byland Abbey, Yorkshire' (on the reverse)
ink on paper
5¹⁄₂ x 8⁷⁄₈ in. (10 x 21.6 cm.); sold with a letter from the artist to Somerset Moore

A gift from the artist to Somerset Moore.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
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This mixed media work is closely related to an unpublished etching/aquatint (Levinson 25, c1940) of an identical subject and roughly similar size by Piper, for which it may have been the preparatory drawing (Levinson states that a few proof copies of the print survive, some of which are hand-coloured, with an example of the latter reproduced in Richard Ingrams, 'Piper's Places', plate 68).

Work by the draughtsman and printmaker John Sell Cotman (1782-1842) was an influence, in terms of both style and subject matter, on John Piper both during the late-1930s/1940s and at various other stages in his career, and is often discussed and illustrated in the artist's writings - these reveal that Cotman's etchings and watercolours of Byland Abbey, dating from the early 1800s, were well-known to Piper.

We are very grateful to Rev. Dr Stephen Laird FSA for preparing this catalogue entry.