Pen and blue ink, 38 by 28 cm

Provenance: Brian Sewell; Christie’s, London, The Brian Sewell Sale, 27 September 2016, part of lot 184

Although described in the Christie’s catalogue for the Brian Sewell Collection as being a portrait of Norman Barker it seems likely that the sitter in the present drawing is in fact the actor Norman Bowler. Bowler was a regular sitter for Minton in the early 1950s.