JOHN PIPER, C.H. (1903-1992)
Long Melford Church, Suffolk
signed John Piper (lower right), numbered 269/275 (lower left)
screenprint
image: 46.4 x 61 cm (18 x 24 in)

Executed in 1982, Piper's interest in Suffolk churches dated back at least to the 1950s, when he had worked on his set of prints of 'Three Suffolk Towers' - the church towers of Laxfield, Walberswick and Stoke-by-Nayland. Piper drew them while staying at Aldeburgh in 1958, rehearsing a Monteverdi opera he had designed for the Aldeburgh Festival that year.

PROVENANCE:
Edward Atkin, Director of the Cannon Rubber Manufacturers Ltd

LITERATURE:
O. Levinson, The Prints of John Piper: Quality and Experiment. A Catalogue Raisonné 1923-1991, London, 2010, no 336