John Minton (1917-1957)

Factory Interior, The Imperial Smelting Corporation

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John Minton (1917-1957)
Factory Interior, The Imperial Smelting Corporation
inscribed on the reverse Selection Trust Buildings Masons Avenue City
pen, brush, black ink, watercolour and wax crayon
11 x 15in. (28 x 38cm.)
Executed in 1947
and an unframed pen and ink sketch of a similar subject by the same artist (2)

Lot Essay

This watercolour is one of a series of advertisement drawings for the Imperial Smelting Corporation at Bristol which Minton executed in 1947. (See F. Spalding, Dance till the Stars Come Down, London, 1991, p.129, c.f. pl.VII)

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