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£10,000 - £15,000
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Provenance
Sir Alan Bates C.B.E. (1934-2003) and thence by family descent
Private Collection, U.K.
The present work hung in Sir Alan Bates' house in St John's Wood, London. The date that the drawing was given to Bates (1956) is the year in which Bates made his West End debut as Cliff in the breakthrough play 'Look Back in Anger' at the Royal Court Theatre. This coincided with John Minton producing set designs at the Royal Court and the actor and artist became friends.
The pen and ink drawing forms a body of work by Minton depicting the buildings and people of the Gorbals area of Glasgow. A fully worked watercolour version of this study is in the Northampton Town and County Art Society Collection.