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Property from the collection of the late Owen and Isabel Plowright of Dunsa House, Edensor, Derbyshire

John Piper, C.H. (1903-1992)

Weathercote Cave, North Yorkshire

Details

John Piper, C.H. (1903-1992)
Weathercote Cave, North Yorkshire
signed 'John Piper' (lower right)
watercolour, ink and chalk with scratching out
20 x 16 in. (52.7 x 40.6 cm.)
Executed circa 1943.

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner in the mid-1950s, with the assistance of the artist Walter Goetz.

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

In August 1942, Piper visited North Yorkshire to prepare his article entitled Notes from a Yorkshire Journal for the Geographical Magazine. As well as Weathercote Cave, Piper also visited Gordale Scar and Easegill. David Fraser Jenkins notes that 'these sites had been painted in the years around 1800 by J.M.W. Turner, James Ward and other romantic artists' (exhibition catalogue, John Piper, London, Tate Gallery, 1983, p. 112).

We are very grateful to Rev. Dr. Stephen Laird for his assistance in preparing this catalogue entry.

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