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Cheltenham Fantasia

John Piper, 1939

The Wilson: Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, Cheltenham

This startling collage by Piper is an architectural capriccio, and only the house at the centre with its Italianate pediment and tower can now certainly be identified at Cheltenham. On the skyline is the wonderful Gothic Revival spire of Fretherne church, alongside Fretherne Court, some miles away from Cheltenham but in the same county. This confrontation of distant places is odd, and it may be that this collage was intended to be published in the Shell Guide to Gloucestershire of 1939. This collage was among his first paintings to unite distinctive buildings in an imaginative design.

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Title of artwork, date

Cheltenham Fantasia, 1939

Date supported

1995

Medium and material

Pencil, Indian ink, gouache, collage on paper

Dimensions

43 x 56 cm

Grant

3000

Total cost

16000

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