Inscribed and dated l.l.: Botolph Claydon/10/ix/1964 and with the artist’s studio stamp (verso)

Watercolour with gouache and indian ink, 53 by 35.5 cm

Provenance: property of the artist’s family

Botolph Claydon is situated in northern Buckinghamshire some nine miles from Bicester. Its ancient name Botyl Claydon is Anglo-Saxon in origin, “Botyl” meaning “house” and Claydon meaning “clay hill”. The present watercolour is typical of Piper’s effervescent abstract landscape work from the early 1960s.