An Elaborate Stage Design with Arches and Statuary

after 1953

John Piper

Artist, British, 1903 - 1992

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

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

  • Credit Line

    Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

  • Dimensions

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

  • Accession

    2009.70.193

Artwork history & notes

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

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).

Inscriptions

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)

Watermarks

N 1953 and "ENGLAND" [Whatman paper]

Wikidata ID

Q64583835

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