LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pen and ink on card

Measurements:

21.97 in. (55.80 cm.) (height) by 31.77 in. (80.70 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'John Minton 1945' ( u.l.)

Exhibited:

London, Fischer Fine Art, The British Neo-Romantics, 1935-1950, 13 July-19 August 1983, cat.no.59; this exhibition travelled to Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, 27 August-25 September (ill.b&w)

Literature:

Malcom Yorke, The Spirit of Place: Nine Neo-Romantic Artists and their Times, Constable, London, 1988, p.180 (ill.b&w)

Provenance:

Sigmund Pollitzer (1913-1982), from whom acquired by the family of the present owner in the 1970s,Private Collection, U.K