Harlaxton through the Gate

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: HM Revenue & Customs, 100 Parliament Street

John Piper was born in Epsom, Surrey and worked in his father’s solicitors’ firm until 1926. He later studied art in Richmond and London. Meeting Braque in Paris inspired him to make abstract art and to exhibit with the Seven and Five Society (1934–35). In 1935 Piper collaborated with Myfanwy Evans (later, his wife) on the pioneering review, ‘Axis’. He abandoned abstract art for Neo-Romanticism and during the Second World War, as an Official War Artist, he recorded bomb-devastated buildings of England’s disappearing architectural heritage. A versatile artist, Piper made book illustrations, theatre designs, ceramics, stained-glass and textiles. He collaborated with Patrick Reyntiens on stained glass projects which included the baptistry window for what was then the new Coventry Cathedral, and the stained glass lantern for Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. Retrospectives of Piper's work were held at the Museum of Modern Art (Oxford, 1973) and the Tate (1983–84).

Places

England, Lincolnshire

Subjects

sculpture (as Subject), topography, gate, country house/mansion, niche, door, tower

Materials & Techniques

screenprint

Artist

John Piper (1903 - 1992)

Title

Harlaxton through the Gate

Portfolio Title

Victorian Dream Palaces

Edition

4/75

Date

1977

Medium

Screenprint

Acquisition

Purchased from Marlborough Fine Art, October 1977

Inscription

below image: 4/75 / John Piper

GAC number

13495