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Capriccio of Rome, Design for the Cover of the Brandenburg Concertos

Lot Closed

September 23, 01:12 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

John Piper

1903 - 1992

Capriccio of Rome, Design for the Cover of the Brandenburg Concertos


signed John Piper (lower right)

watercolour, pencil, pastel, ink and collage with marbling on paper

unframed: 40 by 74.5cm.; 15¾ by 29¼in.

framed: 68.5 by 102.5cm.; 27 by 40¼in.

Executed in 1964.

Sold together with a copy of J S Bach, Brandenburg Concertos.

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We are grateful to Hugh Fowler-Wright and Luke Piper for their kind assistance with the cataloguing for the present work.

Sale, Christie's South Kensington, 28 March 1996, lot 233

Sale, Christie's South Kensington, 21 June 1998, lot 196

Chris Beetles Gallery, London, 1999

Michael Hogben Auction Galleries, 24 February 2019, where acquired by the present owner