Variation: Scene from Raphael's The Expulsion of Heliodorus

Details

John Piper, C.H. (1903-1992)
Variation: Scene from Raphael's The Expulsion of Heliodorus
signed 'John Piper' (lower right)
ink and gouache
13½ x 17½ in. (34.3 x 44.4 cm.)
Executed circa 1951-52.

Provenance

with Brook Street Gallery, London.
Mr. W. Taylor.

Special notice

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.

Lot Essay

The present work is part of a distinctive group of variations on Old Master paintings which Piper produced in the early 1950s. Piper made his own versions of well-known works by Rubens, Raphael, Mantegna and Poussin, among others.
S.L.

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