© The Piper Estate
Stones and Bones
Artist: John Piper (1903 - 1992)
Location: Museum of Reading
Date: 1978
Materials: screenprint
Dimensions: each 50.5 x 70cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £10,000 (Total: £17,500)
Vendor: B Sterling
Review number: 5618 (2005)
Provenance:
Austin Desmond Gallery, Ascot; Mr B Sterling, circa 1985.
Description:
A complete folio of 27 unbound screen prints relating to a wide range of techniques. Piper has used a variety of sources for the prints including drawing, collage, photographs and sketchbooks. Some images include notes referring to texts that inspired him. Others indicate his love of and desire to record Romanesque architecture, particularly using photography. Others are rare examples of his experiments with figurative images, probably based on his wife Myfanwy.
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