Bath: Grosvenor Crescent

John Piper (1903 - 1992)

Oil on canvas

1949

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    John Piper was born in Epsom, Surrey and worked in his father’s solicitors’ firm until 1926. He later studied art in Richmond and London. Meeting Braque in Paris inspired him to make abstract art and to exhibit with the Seven and Five Society (1934–35). In 1935 Piper collaborated with Myfanwy Evans (later, his wife) on the pioneering review, ‘Axis’. He abandoned abstract art for Neo-Romanticism and during the Second World War, as an Official War Artist, he recorded bomb-devastated buildings of England’s disappearing architectural heritage. A versatile artist, Piper made book illustrations, theatre designs, ceramics, stained-glass and textiles. He collaborated with Patrick Reyntiens on stained glass projects which included the baptistry window for what was then the new Coventry Cathedral, and the stained glass lantern for Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. Retrospectives of Piper's work were held at the Museum of Modern Art (Oxford, 1973) and the Tate (1983–84).
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    Title
    Bath: Grosvenor Crescent
    Date
    1949
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    height: 197.50 cm, width: 123.00 cm
    Acquisition
    Commissioned from the artist, January 1949
    Inscription
    bl: John Piper
    Provenance
    Ministry of Works Commission for HM Embassy, Rio de Janeiro, 1949
    GAC number
    12053