Dance till the Stars Come Down: A Biography of John Minton

Artist: John Minton 
Author: Frances Spalding 
Publisher: John Curtis/Hodder & Stoughton 
Date: 1991 
Condition: Very good; a first edition with original unclipped dust wrapper, the whole in very clean and little-read condition, some light sunning to the spine of the jacket.

This biography is still a must-read for anyone interested in the life of John Minton. Approachable and readable, it is also stuffed to the gills with information and is pretty much the bedrock on which most subsequent Minton study has been built. 

Not only is it good on Minton himself, it also gives a very good sense of the artistic world in which he operated, the contemporaries he knew, and the way in which it seemed to unravel for him. An essential for your Modern British shelves