An Elaborate Stage Design with Arches and Statuary, after 1953

Not on View

Medium

watercolor, gouache, pen and black ink, black chalk, distemper, and graphite with collage on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 37.8 x 57.8 cm (14 7/8 x 22 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

Accession Number

2009.70.193

Artists / Makers

John Piper (artist) British, 1903 - 1992

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Inscription

signed by artist, lower right in graphite: John Piper; by artist, center left in graphite: On backing / Not open to eye; and center right in graphite: On backing / not open to/eye; by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: 76 (in circle)

Provenance

(Brian Sewell, London, by 1977); Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York, 1977; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

McCrindle, Joseph F.

Exhibition History

2012: The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2012, 160-161, no. 70 (entry by Josephine Rodgers).