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Walter Hoyle (1922 - 2000)
Rugby School
Linocut 62 x 46 cm Signed, titled, and inscribed A/P in pencil. Possibly unique. Hoyle's view of Rugby School. The school's architecture is depicted in shades of blue and grey, with an orange patch of sun in the cloudy sky above. A green garden peeks out from between the buildings, which lean gently away from one another. Hoyle trained at Beckenham School of Art and the Royal College of Art. At the latter he was strongly influenced by Edward Bawden, one of Britain’s greatest linocut printers. Bawden had been commissioned by the 1951 Festival of Britain to produce a mural for the South Bank, and chose Hoyle to assist on account of his great talent. Hoyle moved to Great Bardfield in Essex, becoming a part of the Great Bardfield group of artists; diverse in style, they created figurative work, in stark contrast to the abstract art of the St Ives artists at the opposite end of the country. Hoyle taught at St Martin’s School of Art from 1951-60, the Central School of Arts and Crafts from 1960-64, and the Cambridge School of Art from 1964-1985, during which time he launched Cambridge Print Editions. His work is held in the collections of the Tate Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum, The British Museum, Kettle’s Garden and the Fry Art Gallery. Condition: enerally very good; a few handling marks and a little spotting to the margins. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Walter Hoyle (1922-2000)
Senate House, Cambridge (Cambridge Series 1956-6)
Block print 72/75 Artist’s proof, published by Editions Alecto, London, 1966 46x89cm Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
John Piper
Skeabost, Skye 1975
Screenprint by Curwen Studio Printed on Arches by Kelpra Studio and published by Marlborough Fine Art 68x89cm Signed in crayon; an un-numbered proof print aside from the edition of 70. Levinson 250 From the Series 'Five Scottish Chapels (in ruins)' If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
John Piper (1903-1992)
St James the Less, Westminster
Screenprint 65 x 49 cm From the 'Retrospect of Churches' series, numbered 24/70. Generally very good. Signed in pencil. John Piper CH was an English painter, printmaker, and designer of stained-glass windows. His work often focused on the British landscape, especially churches and monuments, and included tapestry designs, book jackets, screen-prints, photography, fabrics and ceramics. A Retrospect of Churches was issued as a suite of 24 original colour lithographs in colour, in an edition of 70 copies (70 numbered copies plus five artist's proofs). This poignant and dramatic representation of St James the Less is an evocative depiction of this part of London in the evening: wet pavements reflect the bright lights of the buildings, and the church is a warm, moody reddish-purple against the deep black of a dark night. Condition: Generally very good. -
Walter Hoyle (1922 - 2000)
King's College Chapel, Cambridge (Cambridge Series 1956 - 66)
Linocut 72 x 41 cm Signed and inscribed A/P in pencil. Hoyle depicts King's College Chapel as both indomitable and delicate. The bold composition sees the chapel's spires surrounded by a fiery orange light against the black night of the background; at the same time, the western facade looks like it could have been cut from paper, or crafted from lace. Hoyle trained at Beckenham School of Art and the Royal College of Art. At the latter he was strongly influenced by Edward Bawden, one of Britain’s greatest linocut printers. Bawden had been commissioned by the 1951 Festival of Britain to produce a mural for the South Bank, and chose Hoyle to assist on account of his great talent. Hoyle moved to Great Bardfield in Essex, becoming a part of the Great Bardfield group of artists; diverse in style, they created figurative work, in stark contrast to the abstract art of the St Ives artists at the opposite end of the country. Hoyle taught at St Martin’s School of Art from 1951-60, the Central School of Arts and Crafts from 1960-64, and the Cambridge School of Art from 1964-1985, during which time he launched Cambridge Print Editions. His work is held in the collections of the Tate Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum, The British Museum, Kettle’s Garden and the Fry Art Gallery. Provenance: family of the artist. Condition: generally very good; a few handling marks to margins. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of King's College, Cambridge. -
Walter Hoyle (1922 - 2000)
Senate House, Cambridge (Cambridge Series 1956 - 66)
Linocut 46 x 70 cm Trial print aside from the series, with different colourway. Senate House, under a lively blue sky. Hoyle trained at Beckenham School of Art and the Royal College of Art. At the latter he was strongly influenced by Edward Bawden, one of Britain’s greatest linocut printers. Bawden had been commissioned by the 1951 Festival of Britain to produce a mural for the South Bank, and chose Hoyle to assist on account of his great talent. Hoyle moved to Great Bardfield in Essex, becoming a part of the Great Bardfield group of artists; diverse in style, they created figurative work, in stark contrast to the abstract art of the St Ives artists at the opposite end of the country. Hoyle taught at St Martin’s School of Art from 1951-60, the Central School of Arts and Crafts from 1960-64, and the Cambridge School of Art from 1964-1985, during which time he launched Cambridge Print Editions. His work is held in the collections of the Tate Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum, The British Museum, Kettle’s Garden and the Fry Art Gallery. Provenance: family of the artist. Condition: generally very good; a few handling marks and areas of discolouration to extreme margins, extraneous ink to right hand side, and a very small brown spot to very top right beyond the blue sky. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other general views of Cambridge. -
Walter Hoyle (1922 - 2000)
King's College, Cambridge (Cambridge Series 1956 - 66)
Linocut 56 x 43 cm Signed and inscribed A/P in pencil. Possibly unique. Hoyle's view of King's College, Cambridge, with a slice of blue sky behind. Hoyle trained at Beckenham School of Art and the Royal College of Art. At the latter he was strongly influenced by Edward Bawden, one of Britain’s greatest linocut printers. Bawden had been commissioned by the 1951 Festival of Britain to produce a mural for the South Bank, and chose Hoyle to assist on account of his great talent. Hoyle moved to Great Bardfield in Essex, becoming a part of the Great Bardfield group of artists; diverse in style, they created figurative work, in stark contrast to the abstract art of the St Ives artists at the opposite end of the country. Hoyle taught at St Martin’s School of Art from 1951-60, the Central School of Arts and Crafts from 1960-64, and the Cambridge School of Art from 1964-1985, during which time he launched Cambridge Print Editions. His work is held in the collections of the Tate Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum, The British Museum, Kettle’s Garden and the Fry Art Gallery. Provenance: family of the artist. Condition: generally very good; a few handling marks and a little age toning to the margins. Vertical impressins within and below the blue vertical area which are probably part of the artist's working technique. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other views of King's College, Cambridge. -
John Hoyland (1934 - 2011)
Yellows (1969)
Screenprint 56 x 94 cmArtist’s proof. Signed and dated lower right.
Hoyland's abstract print is made up of wide fields of colour, formally arranged. Paul Moorhouse wrote of the artist's ‘insistence on eliminating figurative references’, and here we have an entirely abstract composition - one which has no desire to depict anything figurative, anything tangible. The colours are vivid, with the ‘restrictive palette in which red-green oppositions are dominant’ which marks Hoyland's early work is cautiously evident here. The abstraction is deliberately imperfect: small yellow splashes break into the expanse of green, and the texture of that green overtly demonstrates its texture and madeness. Hoyland's prints are keen to remind us of the physical process of their making, relying on the tension between the formal and the informal to do so. John Hoyland was one of Britain's most revered post-war abstract artists. He was born in Sheffield and studied at the Sheffield School of Art and Crafts, and then Sheffield College of Art and the Royal Academy Schools in London. His first solo exhibition was held at the Marlborough New London Gallery in 1964. Retrospectives of his paintings have been held at the Serpentine Gallery (1979), the Royal Academy (1999) and Tate St Ives (2006). Hoyland was elected to the Royal Academy in 1991 and was appointed Professor of Painting at the Royal Academy Schools in 1999. Condition: very good; recent heavy handsome frame. Glass will be removed for international shipping. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other Modern British Print. -
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John Piper (1903-1992)
Three Somerset Towers (1973)
Screenprint 56 x 76 cm John Piper CH was an English painter, printmaker, and designer of stained-glass windows. His work often focused on the British landscape, especially churches and monuments, and included tapestry designs, book jackets, screen-prints, photography, fabrics and ceramics. Condition: generally very good; a little age toning. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other works by John Piper. -
Walter Hoyle (1922 - 2000)
King's College Chapel, Cambridge in red (1965)
Linocut Cambridge Series State Proof, Signed and Titled in pencil. Printed by the artist at Editions Alecto51x69cm Condition: Excellent Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
John Piper (1903-1992)
Le Petit Palais (1972)
Screenprint Signed and numbered 18/25 in pencil. Piper's print of the Petit Palais in shades of yellow. The Petit Palais is an art museum in Paris; it was built for the 1900 Exposition Universelle and is now home to the City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts. John Piper CH was an English painter, printmaker, and designer of stained-glass windows. His work often focused on the British landscape, especially churches and monuments, and included tapestry designs, book jackets, screen-prints, photography, fabrics and ceramics. Condition: generally very good; mounted to board. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other works by John Piper. -
John Piper (1903 - 1992)
Façade (1987)
Lithograph 45 x 60 cm Numbered 96/108 lower left and signed lower right, both in pencil. Printed by Piper and the screenprinter Chris Prater in 1987 after the original designs from 1942. 'Façade' was a sequence of poems written by the English poet Edith Sitwell. They were set to music by William Walton in 1922, four years after they were first written. 'Façade' premiered in 1923 in London, and was praised for its experimental modernist style. The choreographer Frederick Ashton made Façade into a ballet in 1931; Sitwell did not wish her poems to be included, but Walton's orchestral arrangements were used. John Piper was commissioned as set designer for a 1942 performance of Facade in 1942. This lithograph is the design for the performance's curtain; the poetry and music of the performance were played behind the curtain, unseen by the audience. The Gothic house to the right was inspired by Eaton Hall in Cheshire, and we also see a folly, lake, and wood typical of an English country house. The moon, butterfly, and dragonfly lend themselves to the scene's dreamlike aspects, and the mask in the centre of the design highlights the collaborative nature of Façade - a salute to poetry, music, art, and even architecture. John Piper CH was an English painter, printmaker, and designer of stained-glass windows. His work often focused on the British landscape, especially churches and monuments, and included tapestry designs, book jackets, screen-prints, photography, fabrics and ceramics. Condition: very good. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other works by John Piper. -
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John Piper (1903 - 1992)
Oxburgh Hall (1977)
Lithograph 61 x 48 cm Provenance: Marlborough Galleries. Signed in pencil lower right. Piper's saturnine depiction of Oxburgh Hall, a moated country house in Norfolk now owned by the National Trust. John Piper CH was an English painter, printmaker, and designer of stained-glass windows. His work often focused on the British landscape, especially churches and monuments, and included tapestry designs, book jackets, screen-prints, photography, fabrics and ceramics. Condition: very good; the orange ink is often very faded in the Oxburgh print - this copy remains vibrant. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other works by John Piper. -
John Piper C.H. (BRITISH, 1903-1992)
Shadwell Park
(Levinson 277) Screenprint in colours, on Arches, signed and numbered. Printed by Kelpra Studio and published by Marlborough Fine Art, London. 510 x 690mm From the 'Victorian Dream Palaces' series of prints by Piper. Click here for biographical details and other works by the artist. If you are interested email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Condition: generally very good. A little discolouration to extreme margins hidden under mount. In hand-finished black-painted frame. -
John Piper (1903-1992)
Capesthorne Hall (1977)
Screenprint 64 x 102 cm Piper captures here, in his usual fanciful colours, the Cheshire stately home of Capesthorne Hall. Built in neoclassical style by William Smith and his son Francis, the hall today is used for weddings and other civil occasions. John Piper CH was an English painter, printmaker, and designer of stained-glass windows. His work often focused on the British landscape, especially churches and monuments, and included tapestry designs, book jackets, screen-prints, photography, fabrics and ceramics. Condition: very good; a little old discolouration to edges under mount. If you are interested, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. Click here for other works by John Piper.
