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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 20, 2018 | MINOTAUR REVEALED | Sotheby's | London | ||||
sculpture
73 cm (28.74 in)
bronze
Grosvenor Gallery, London, where acquired by Dr Lewson in 1964
Acquired from the Estate of the above by the present owners, 1995
London, Grosvenor Gallery, Michael Ayrton, Bronzes, Paintings, Collages and Drawings 1962-1964, 29th April - 30th May 1964, cat. no.5 (another cast);
New York, James Goodman Gallery, Michael Ayrton, 15th May - 5th June 1965, cat. 27 (another cast);
Toronto, Mazelow Gallery, Michael Ayrton, 18th May - 4th June 1965, cat. no.22 (another cast);
Kings Lynn, Seventeenth King's Lynn Festival, Michael Ayrton, 1967, cat. no.7 (another cast);
Chicago, Sears Vincent Price Gallery, Michael Ayrton, October - November 1967, cat. no.33 (another cast);
Colchester, University of Essex, Michael Ayrton, 10th - 23rd March 1968, cat. no.7 (another cast);
London, Hamet Gallery, Michael Ayrton: Sculpture 1956-58, 4th - 29th March 1969, cat. no.11 (another cast);
Reading, Reading Museum Art Gallery, Michael Ayrton, 14th June - 15th July 1969, cat. no.27 (another cast);
Bruton, Bruton Gallery, Michael Ayrton, 9th October - 6th November 1971, cat. no.9 (another cast);
London, National Book League, Word and Image I & II, December 1971, cat. no.81 (another cast);
Chicago, R.S. Johnston International Gallery, Michael Ayrton: The Maze: Bronzes, Drawings, Etchings 1962-1972, November 1972, cat. no.8 (another cast);
Portsmouth, Portsmouth City Art Gallery, Michael Ayrton: Maze and Minotaur, 3rd February - 3rd March 1973, cat. no.5 (another cast), with tour to Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton; Holburne Museum, Bath; Exeter City Art Gallery, Exeter and Rye Art Gallery, Rye;
Philadelphia, The Museum of Art Pennsylvania State University, Michael Ayrton, 6th May - 17th June 1973, cat. no.1 (another cast);
London, Agnew & Sons, Michael Ayrton: Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 1949 - 1969, 1984, cat. no.27 (another cast);
London, Austin/Desmond Fine Art, Michael Ayrton: Retrospective 1939-1975, December 1990 - January 1991, cat. no.45 (another cast).
Michael Ayrton and C.P. Snow, Drawings and Sculpture by Michael Ayrton, Cory, Adams and McKay, London, 1966, illustrated pl.150 (another cast);
Peter Cannon-Brookes, Michael Ayrton: An Illustrated Commentary, City Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham, 1978, p.91;
Justine Hopkins, Michael Ayrton: A Biography, Andre Deutsch, London, 1994, p.293;
Jacob E. Nyenhuis, Myth and the Creative Process: Michael Ayrton and the Myth of Daedalus, the Maze Maker, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 2003, cat. no.352, illustrated p.253 (another cast).
bronze
height (including bronze base): 73cm.; 28¾in.
Conceived in 1963, the present work is from the edition of 6.
