John Minton (1917-1957)
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John Minton (1917-1957)

Byland Abbey in the moonlight

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John Minton (1917-1957)
Byland Abbey in the moonlight
ink, pencil, watercolour and bodycolour
18¼ x 29½ in. (46.3 x 74.9 cm.)
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Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
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The ruins in this work have been identified as Byland Abbey, North Yorkshire.

Lot Essay

'There is no more revealing human personality than the visual artist... for a man will paint only of himself and of the things he knows, loves, hates, desires.' John Minton is a descriptive artist in the best sense in that his drawings and paintings transmute into visual terms what he saw and felt in front of people and places. The tension often found in his paintings, with their romantic imagery and taut severities of style, parallels the conflict in his nature between his anarchic bohemianism and his simultaneous need to belong. (F. Spalding, John Minton: dance till the stars come down, Aldershot, 2005, p.3.)
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