Portsall

Details

John Piper, C.H. (1903-1992)
Portsall
signed 'John Piper' (lower right); inscribed and dated 'Portsall 2 3 65' (lower left)
ink, pastel, watercolour and gouache
13¼ x 20 in. (30.5 x 50.8 cm.)

Provenance

with Baukunst Galerie, Cologne, where purchased by the present owners' mother, and by descent.

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

Portsall is a small beachside settlement in the Finistere region of Brittany, France. Piper, in mid-career, seems to have been particularly attracted to relatively desolate Celtic coastlines, with the Brittany subjects (which date from the end of the 1950s to the early 1960s) supplemented by comparable series of works depicting the beaches and cliffs of Anglesey and of Pembrokeshire, in Wales; and - by the mid-1960s - Connemara in Ireland.

We are very grateful to Rev. Dr Stephen Laird FSA for preparing this catalogue entry.

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