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John Piper

13 December 1903 - 28 June 1992

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Piper was an English painter, printmaker and designer of stained-glass windows and both opera and theatre sets. His work often focused on the British landscape, especially churches and monuments, which made up his tapestry designs, book jackets, screen-prints, photography, fabrics and ceramics. Piper collaborated with many others on the Shell Guidesincluding the poets John Betjeman and Geoffrey Grigson. One of his most distinguished and collected works is Brighton Aquatintsof 1939.

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Piper (John) Brighton Aquatints. Twelve original aquatints of modern Brighto...

Hammer: £7,500

Piper (John).- Thomas (Dylan) Deaths and Entrances, edited by Walford Davies...

Hammer: £5,500

Various Artists The Hope and Optimism Portfolio The complete portfolio, 1990, comprising 9...

Hammer: £3,000

John Piper (1903-1992) Abstract Composition (Levinson 7) Lithograph printed i...

Hammer: £2,800

Piper (John) & others.- Cunard (Nancy) & others. Salvo for Russia, [...

Hammer: £2,400

John Piper (1903-1992) West Walton (Levinson 332) Screenprint in colours, 198...

Hammer: £2,200

John Piper (1903-1992) Long Medford Church Progressive Colour State Proofs (see ...

Hammer: £1,400

John Piper (1903-1992) Nursery Frieze II (Levinson 9) Lithograph printed in c...

Hammer: £1,200

Evans (Myfanwy, editor) Axis. A Quarterly Review of Contemporary Abstract Painting &a...

Hammer: £1,100

John Piper (1903-1992) Castlemartin (Levinson 259) Screenprint in colours, 19...

Hammer: £1,000

John Piper (1903-1992) Ivychurch, Romney Marsh (Levinson 364) Etching with aq...

Hammer: £1,000

John Piper (1903-1992) Duchene Fountain, Blenheim (Levinson 418) Screenprint ...

Hammer: £800

John Piper (1903-1992) Nursery Frieze II (Levinson 9) Lithograph printed in c...

Hammer: £800

Piper (John).- Thomas (R.S.) The Mountains, number LX of 110 special copies ...

Hammer: £800

John Piper (1903-1992) Grott Halswell, Somerset (Levinson 396) Screenprint in...

Hammer: £750

John Piper (1903-1992) Wiggenhall, St Peter (Levinson 254) Lithograph printed...

Hammer: £700

John Piper (1903-1992) Long Medford Church (Levinson 336) Lithograph printed ...

Hammer: £700

John Piper (1903-1992) Avoncroft Museum (Levinson 258) Lithograph printed in ...

Hammer: £700

John Piper (1903-1992) Long Melford Church (Levinson 336) Lithograph printed ...

Hammer: £650

John Piper (1903-1992) Shadwell Park, pl. VI from Victorian Dream Palaces (Levin...

Hammer: £600

John Piper (1903-1992) Long Medford Church (Levinson 336) Lithograph printed ...

Hammer: £600

John Piper (1903-1992) Yarnton Monument, Oxon (Levinson 70) Lithograph printe...

Hammer: £600

John Piper (1930-1992) Long Melford Church (Levinson 336) Lithograph printed ...

Hammer: £600

John Piper (1903-1992) Long Medford Church (Levinson 336) Lithograph printed ...

Hammer: £550

John Piper (1903-1992) Lewknor, Oxfordshire: textured walls, traceried windows (...

Hammer: £550

Gwasg Gregynog.- Thomas (Dylan) Deaths and Entrances, edited by Walford Davi...

Hammer: £500

John Piper (1903-1992) Foliate Heads II (Levinson 84) Lithograph printed in c...

Hammer: £500

Piper (John) John Piper's Stowe, out-of-series Printer's copy, from ...

Hammer: £500

Various Artists A Collection of Marlborough Gallery Catalogues Circa 100 cata...

Hammer: £500

John Piper (1903-1992) Death in Venice: side panel left (Levinson 224) Screen...

Hammer: £500

John Piper (1903-1992) St Amand-de-Coly, Dordogne (Levinson 196) Screenprint ...

Hammer: £500

Piper (John) John Piper's Stowe, one of 300 copies signed by the artist,...

Hammer: £500

John Piper (1903-1992) Eye and Camera: Marble, Red and Black etc. lying figure r...

Hammer: £500

John Piper (1903-1992) Nude II (Levinson 390) Etching with aquatint, 1986-198...

Hammer: £480

Betjeman (John) Poems in the Porch, 1954; First and Last Loves, occasional l...

Hammer: £460

Gwasg Gregynog.- Walters (Gwyn, editor) Pennant and his Welsh landscapes: Selected re...

Hammer: £440

John Piper (1903-1992) Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire; medieval stone (Levinson ...

Hammer: £420

John Piper (1903-1992) Milton Ernest Hall, from Victorian Dream Palaces (Levinson 276)Scre...

Hammer: £400

Economics.- Observations, &c. upon the Act for Taxing Income..., first e...

Hammer: £400

Thomas (R.S.) The Mountains, number 216 of 240 copies, from an edition limit...

Hammer: £400

John Piper (1903-1992) San Marco, Venice (Levinson 116) Lithograph printed in...

Hammer: £400

Piper (John).- Woods (S.John, editor) John Piper: Paintings, D...

Hammer: £400

Piper (John).- Fowler-Wright (Hugh), Rigby Graham & others. Piper in Pr...

Hammer: £400

Sitwell (Sir George) On the Making of Gardens, one of 100 spec...

Hammer: £380

Sitwell (Edith) Facade, one of 150 copies signed by the author, autograph correction in th...

Hammer: £380

Gregynog Presss.- Thomas (Dylan) Deaths and Entrances, edited by Walford Dav...

Hammer: £350

John Piper (1903-1992) The Visitation (Levinson 253) Lithograph printed in co...

Hammer: £350

Piper (John).- Golding (William) The Spire, first edition, signed and inscri...

Hammer: £340

John Piper (1903-1992) The Visitation (Levinson 253) Lithograph printed in co...

Hammer: £340

Braine (John) Room at the Top, uncorrected proof copy, spotting and marking ...

Hammer: £340

John Piper (1903-1992) Easton, Portland, Dorset: St George Reforne, an 18th-cent...

Hammer: £320

John Piper (1903-1992) Gedney, Lincolnshire; a tower in the fens (Levinson 139) ...

Hammer: £320

John Piper (1903-1992) Warkton, Northamptonshire: monument by Vangelder (Levinso...

Hammer: £320

Stone (Reynolds).- Thomas (R.S.) The Mountains, number 15 of 240 copies, fro...

Hammer: £300

[Britain in Pictures series], a complete set of the main format titles comprising n...

Hammer: £300

Britten (Benjamin).- Crozier (Eric) & others. The Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the ...

Hammer: £300

Hadfield (John, editor) Restoration Love Songs [&] Elizabe...

Hammer: £300

Music.- Walton (William) Façade an entertainment, number 201 of 250 specially bound...

Hammer: £280

Dust-jackets.- Koestler (Arthur) The Age of Longing, first English edition, ...

Hammer: £260

Ariel Poems (New Series), 8 vol., comprising poems by T.S. Eliot, C. Day Lewis, Walter de ...

Hammer: £260

Piper (John) Romney Marsh, first edition, signed by the author on title with...

Hammer: £260

Betjeman (John) Ghastly Good Taste, number 17 of 200 signed by author, origi...

Hammer: £240

Orde Levinson John Piper, The Complete Graphic Works 1923-1983, and John Piper Q...

Hammer: £240

Turner (W. J.) & Sheila Shannon, editors. New Excursions into English Poetry, 7 vol. [...

Hammer: £240

Piper (John).- Hadfield (John, editor) Elizabethan Love Songs, one of 660 copies, A.L.s fr...

Hammer: £240

Piper (John).- Sitwell (Edith) & William Walton. Façade an entertai...

Hammer: £220

Lee (Brian North) Bookplates and Labels by Leo Wyatt, one of 300 copies, ori...

Hammer: £220

Piper (Charles A.) Sixty-Three: Not Out, first edition, decorations by John Piper, ownersh...

Hammer: £220

British art.- Russell (James) Ravilious Wood Engravings, 2013 § Levy (M...

Hammer: £200

Piper (John) [Shell Guide] Oxon, light foxing at beginning and end, [1938] &...

Hammer: £200

John Piper (1903-1992) Llangloffan (not in Levinson) Lithograph printed in co...

Hammer: £200

John Piper (1903-1992) Easton, Portland, Dorset: St George Reforne, and 18th-cen...

Hammer: £200

John Piper (1903-1992) Babingley - Sepia Variation (Levinson 371) Screenprint...

Hammer: £200

Piper (John) 18 colour lithographs for 'India Love Poems', [a comple...

Hammer: £190

Turner (W.J., editor) [Britain in Pictures series], 105 vol., mostly first editions, sever...

Hammer: £190

Shell Guides.- Betjeman (John, editor) Cornwall Illustrated in...

Hammer: £190

Piper (John).- Sitwell (Edith) & William Walton. Façade an entertai...

Hammer: £190

Betjeman (John) An Exhibition of Works by Sir John Betjeman, from the Collec...

Hammer: £180

British Art.- Powers (Alan) & others. British Murals & Decorative Pa...

Hammer: £170

Betjeman (John) Poems in the Porch, signed presentation inscription from the...

Hammer: £170

Modern Art.- Michel (Walter) Wyndham Lewis: Paintings and Drawings, 1971 ...

Hammer: £160

Lynton (Norbert) William Scott, 2004 § Gooding (Mel) Patrick Heron, 199...

Hammer: £160

Music.- Walton (William) and Edith Sitwell. Façade and entertainment, number 33 of ...

Hammer: £150

Lettering & Typography.- Johnson (A.F.) Decorative Initial Letters, one ...

Hammer: £140

Modern Prints.- Cramer (Patrick) Henry Moore: Catalogue of Graphic Work , vo...

Hammer: £140

John Piper (1903-1992) Exton, Rutland: monument by Grinling Gibbons, 1686 (Levin...

Hammer: £140

Dyer (John) Grongar Hill, number 67 of 175 copies signed by the artist, lith...

Hammer: £140

Piper (John).- Sitwell (Sir George) On the Making of Gardens, one of 1000 co...

Hammer: £130

Art & Architecture.- Sánchez-Jáuregui (M.D.) & Scott Wilcox. The Eng...

Hammer: £120

Piper (John).- Powers (Alan) & others. Piper in Print: Books, Periodical...

Hammer: £110

Piper (John) Buildings and Prospects, first edition, double-page colour lith...

Hammer: £100

Betjeman (John) Summoned by Bells, limited edition signed by the author, pub...

Hammer: £85

Stained Glass.- McGrath (Raymond) & A.C.Frost. Glass in Architecture and Decoration, 1...

Hammer: £55

Simon (Oliver editor) Signature. A Quadrimestrial of Typography and Graphic Arts, New Seri...

Hammer: £25

Morris (James/Jan) Coast to Coast, 1954; Venice, New York, 1960; Cities, 196...

Hammer: £20

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