The Forest of Paper (Design for a Mural)

Details

John Minton (1917-1957)
The Forest of Paper (Design for a Mural)
oil on board
14 x 28 ¼ in. (35.6 x 71.8 cm.), shaped
Painted in 1957.

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 12 July 1973, lot 248B.

Special notice

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.

Lot Essay

The artist was commissioned by the Reed Paper group to do a mural for the Packaging Exhibition at Earl's Court in 1957, and the present work was a design for this mural. Minton was working on this particular design just before he died.

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