John Minton

Private collection, U.K.;

sale, London, Bonham’s, 29 June 2011, lot 69;

with Day & Faber, London, 2011,

where acquired by Diane A. Nixon

When this handsome sheet by the idiosyncratic 20^th Century British artist, John Minton, last appeared on the London art market in 2011, Frances Spalding suggested that the cottage depicted was Marshalls. Set away on the edge of the Weald of Kent, near the small village of Chart Sutton, Marshalls was to be the home of Minton’s friend and fellow artist, Edie Lamont and her husband, Marshall Lamont, from January 1945, when they moved to Kent from Hampstead. Minton was a regular visitor to Marshalls every year up until 1954, and another handsome work on paper, The Hop Pickers, also made there in 1945, is in the Ingram Collection of Modern British Art.¹

^1.See https://ingramcollection.com/works/the-hop-pickers-1945/