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John Piper: The Forties

Name: John Piper: The Forties
Brand: GK
SKU: 2088
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Artist: John Piper
Author: David Fraser Jenkins
Publisher: Philip Wilson
Date: 2000
Condition: A very tidy copy

In the 1940s Piper was one of Britain’s best known artists and his rendering, particularly of
architectural subjects, in his signature style melding modernist abstraction with an eye for
details is very captivating. A useful, interesting and now quite scarce catalogue.

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