Sketch for Portuguese Cannon, Mazagan, Morocco

Details

John Minton (1916-1957)
Sketch for Portuguese Cannon, Mazagan, Morocco
signed and dated 'John Minton/1953' (lower right)
pencil, watercolour, pen and black ink and wax crayon
14¾ x 10¾ in. (37.5 x 27¼ cm.)

Provenance

John Lehmann.
Anon. sale; Christie's, London, 9 March 1973, lot 5, where purchased by the present owner.

Exhibited

London, Lefevre Gallery, New Paintings by John Minton, December 1953, no. 12.
London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Arts Council Gallery, John Minton 1917-1957, October-November 1958, no. 69: this exhibition travelled to Eastbourne, Towner Art Gallery, November-December 1958; Blackburn, Art Gallery, December 1958-January 1959; Birmingham, City Museum and Art Gallery, January-February 1959; Bristol, City Art Gallery, February-March 1959; and Nottingham, Victoria Street Art Gallery, March-April 1959.

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Lot Essay

Following his visit to Morocco in 1952, Minton exhibited a group of watercolours of Moroccan subjects including the present work, at the Lefevre Gallery in December 1953. From this watercolour he painted a large oil, Portuguese Cannon, Mazagan, Morocco (1953; Tate Gallery, London; see F. Spalding, Dance till the Stars Come Down A Biography of John Minton, London, 1991, pl. 17).

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