John Piper lithographic print from India Love Poems, 1977 limited edition

  
Size: Sheet size 38 x 57 cm, print image 46 x 24 cm. Condition: Print in excellent condition. This wonderful print is after an illustration by John Piper, one of a series of eighteen done for India Love Poems translated by.

Tambimuttu (1915 - 1983), a Tamil poet, editor and critic. The poems were published as an unbound folio. By Paradine in 1977, in a limited edition of 200.

The print is a four colour lithograph, printed on uncut pure French rag paper. The Piper illustrations are based on various Indian temple sculptures. This particular one illustrates "She is modest and not too forward". John Egerton Christmas Piper (1903 1992) was an English painter, printmaker and designer of stained glass windows and theatre sets. He was educated at Epsom College and trained at the Richmond School of Art followed by the Royal College of Art in London.

Although Piper is most closely associated with architectural subjects, the human figure appears in his work throughout his career and he is considered one of the most diverse artists of the 20th Century. He was an official war artist in World War II.

Piper collaborated with many others, including the poets John Betjeman and Geoffrey Grigson on the Shell Guides, and with the potter Geoffrey Eastop and the artist Ben Nicholson. The item "John Piper lithographic print from India Love Poems, 1977 limited edition" is in sale since Monday, June 14, 2021.

This item is in the category "Art\Art Prints". The seller is "chester1703" and is located in Barkestone, Nottingham.

This item can be shipped worldwide.

• Listed by Self-Representing Artist?: No
• Artist: John Piper
• Style: Asian
• Printing Technique: Lithograph
• Medium: Lithograph
• Date of Creation: Modern (1900-79)
• Features: Matted
• Year: 1977
• Subject: Love
• Originality: Limited Edition Print