© The Piper Estate
Snowdonia, North Wales
Artist: John Piper (1903 - 1992)
Location: Museum of Reading
Date: 1945
Materials: watercolour, pen, ink & pencil
Dimensions: 52 x 70 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £5,000 (Total: £20,000)
Vendor: Agnew's
Review number: 3823 (1992)
Provenance:
Brian Snowdon Esq; Agnew's.
Description:
Snowdonia, intensley dramatic and quintessentially Romantic, was magnetic to Piper. In Wales, as in Yorkshire and elsewhere, he was following in the footsteps of the old Romantic artists, in particular Richard Wilson. In Snowdonia, Piper was studying and painting pure landscape devoid of any buildings.
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