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Lot 131: MICHAEL AYRTON

Est: £6,000 GBP - £8,000 GBPSold:
Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomJuly 11, 2013

Item Overview

Description

1921-1975 WATCHING FIGURE bronze and wood height: 23cm.; 9in.

Artist or Maker

Literature

Michael Ayrton, Michael Ayrton, Drawings and Sculpture, with a foreword by C.P. Snow, Cory, Adams & Mackay Ltd., London, 1962, illustrated pl.55 (another cast).

Provenance

Acquired directly from the Artist by Nigel Balchin, and thence by descent to the present owner

Notes

Executed in 1957, the present work is unique in that the wooden base was rescued by the Artist from a bonfire and utilised in the sculpture, forming the base from which the bronzes of later casts were taken.

Auction Details

Modern & Post-War British Art

by
Sotheby's
July 11, 2013, 05:00 PM WET

Hammersmith Road, London, LDN, W14 8UX, UK