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* John Piper [1903-1992]- Menerbes:- signed bottom left, inscribed with title bottom right pen, ink and watercolour heightened with bodycolour 36 x 53cm * Provenance. Ernest Brown & Phillips Ltd, Leicester Galleries, New Year Exhibition January 1960, where purchased by the present owner. * Notes. Menerbes is a commune in the Vaucluse, South East France formed as a walled village on a hilltop in the Luberon Mountains. It became a mecca for artists; Nicolas de Stael and Picasso each owned properties here. The region grows lavender, mushrooms and a harsh red wine! * Biography. John Piper was a painter, notably of architecture and landscape, a designer of stained glass, theatre designer, author and writer. He was born in Epsom and in his early years studied law, [1921-1926], working in his father's law firm. From 1926 he went on to study Art at Richmond and Kingston, latterly at the Royal College, and it was here that he met and married his first wife Eileen Holding. He visited Paris and was absorbed by the abstract painters he met there, influencing his style from the early 1930s. But by the late 1930s he had reverted to representational work. In 1937 he worked, along with John Betjamin, on the famous Shell series of guide books. His first solo show, of collages and drawings, was at the London Gallery in 1938. At this time he was also a prolific writer, working for the New Statesman and the Athenaeum. John Piper went on to exhibit with the Leicester Galleries from 1940-1960. In 1942 he published the best-selling monograph, English Romantic Artists. His ballet designs included The Quest in 1943 and commissions for Benjamin Britten .He was an official War Artist from 1939-1945. In 1940 Piper persuaded the War Artists Commission that he should be painting the sights of bombed churches. As a recent convert to the Anglican Church and with the subject of ruined buildings being close to his heart, this agreed commission produced a number of his finest mixed media drawings. His stained glass window designs include Coventry Cathedral and Christchurch College Chapel, Oxford. He also created tapestries for Chichester Cathedral, Hereford and Llandaff. In the 1960s and 1970s Piper spent time painting extensively in Pembrokeshire. Retrospectives were held at The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford in 1979 and The Tate Gallery in 1983. Centenary shows were at Pallant House and Goldmark Gallery. John Piper lived in a derelict farmhouse at Fawley Bottom, Oxfordshire with his second wife Myfanwy Evans. In later life he suffered from dementia and died at his home in 1992.
William Crotch [1775 Norwich-1847 Taunton]- Cattle and a donkey grazing in parkland:- inscribed in pencil on the reverse 'Clare Hall' , said to be Mrs Sharpe's House, with the names of the cattle! and dated October 4th 1809 watercolour and pencil drawing 30 x 41cm, unframed. * Biography. Dr William Crotch was born in Norwich. He was a musical prodigy, performing at the age of four in London on the organ and piano, and by the age of 11 was at Cambridge studying music and became Professor of Music in 1797. He moved to London around 1810 and became the first Principal of The Royal Academy of Music. At the same time he was a talented amateur watercolour painter and etcher. His work is characterised by the under-painting of dark grey with light washes of limited colour on top. Many of these drawings were done at Windsor and Budleigh Salterton and Brighton while on holiday.
Attributed to Paul Sandby Munn [1773-1845]- Bassenthwaite Lake:- inscribed on the reverse watercolour 19 x 25.5cm. * Provenance. Collection of The Hon. Miss M Collingwoog. The Hunt Collection, No.27 together with a grey wash view of Ingelton, North Yorks attributed to Robert Adam and two drawings attributed to G.Frost. [4]
Peter Roberson (1907-1989): Corpus Christi, Naples, watercolour and pencil, signed lower right. Note: Peter Roberson was born in Oxford in 1907, went to Oxford Art School, and to the Clarendon Press in 1924 where he drew maps and designed book jackets. He moved to London to work in advertising as a visualizer, illustrator, poster designer and copywriter. He designed 29 posters for London Transport between 1948 and 1978
Paul Bosman (b. 1929): Ground Hornbill in Ficus, pastel study, signed lower right, H 24 x W 31.5 cm. Provenance: with the Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, their label verso; Margaret Gradwell (South African, b. 1956): Landscape, watercolour, signed lower right & dated '95, H 43 x W 52 cm; Paul Augustinius (South African, b. 1952): Two hand-signed colour prints depicting wildlife subjects, together with four others by similar hands (8)
Circle of John Varley, O.W.S. (British, 1778-1842): Figures in a Continental river landscape with mountain top church beyond, watercolour, H 19 x W 27 cm; together with Circle of William Joy (British, 1803-1867): A ship setting sail for Barbados, pencil drawing, inscribed & dated 1866, H 15 x W 23 cm (2)

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