Michael Ayrton
Fat Sentinel
Lot Closed
September 14, 11:51 AM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Michael Ayrton
1921 - 1975
Fat Sentinel
numbered 5/9 (on base)
bronze
height (excluding wooden base): 42cm.; 16½in.
width: 13.5cm.; 5¼in.
Conceived in 1962, the present work is number 5 from the edition of 9.
We are grateful to Justine Hopkins for her kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.
Keith Chapman Gallery, where acquired by the present owner, May 2002
London, Grosvenor Gallery, Michael Ayrton: Bronzes, Paintings, Collages, Collages, and Drawings 1962-1964, 29 April – 30 May 1964, illustrated in the catalogue n.p. (another cast)
Michael Ayrton: Drawings and Sculpture, Cory, Adams & Mackay, 1962, no. 126, illustrated n.p. (wax illustrated)
Michael Ayrton: Bronzes, Paintings, Collages, Collages, and Drawings 1962-1964 (exh. cat.), London, Grosvenor Gallery, 1964, no. 21, illustrated n.p. (another cast)
Michael Ayrton: Sculptures, Paintings, Drawings, Prints, London, Austin/Desmond Fine Art, 1990, no. 39, p. 40 (another cast)
Jacob E. Nyenhuis, Myth and the Creative Process: Michael Ayrton and the Myth of Daedalus, the Maze Maker, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Michigan, 2003, no. 250, p. 104, illustrated fig. 67 (another cast)
Justine Hopkins, Michale Ayrton Ideas Images Reflections, Ayrton Estate, 2021, p. 70
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