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John Minton (British, 1917-1957) Flowers and Jug signed and dated 'John Minton 1948' (lower left) oil on canvas 45.7 x 35.5 cm. (18 x 14 in.) Fußnoten Provenance With Lefevre Gallery, London With Seymours Art, London, June 2009, where acquired by Private Collection, U.K. Exhibited London, Lefevre Gallery, John Minton February 1949, cat.no.23 In August of 1947 John Minton embarked on a trip to Corsica with the writer and poet Alan Ross The result was the illustrated notebook Time Was Away, published by John Lehmann in 1948. Surfacing in the immediate post war years, Minton's dramatic use of colour in Time Was Away is defiantly anti-austerity and achieved somewhat of a cult status amongst illustration students. Minton's experience of Corsica overlapped from his illustrative work to his painting. Several oils displaying Corsican scenes and subjects, dating to 1947 and 1948, are all unified by a gaiety of palette with saturated yellows, greens and blues dominating. Although many of these were worked up from sketches made in Corsica, they were often painted in his London studio. It is to this period that the present work dates, the table and still life arrangement echoes that of Corsican Fisherman (1948), and the related The Life Model (1948). Whilst the present example appears to be very much a studio work, the vibrant colours recall those of Corsica and the flowers especially are described similarly to those of Corsican Still Life (circa 1947). We are grateful to Frances Spalding for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.