Michael Ayrton
Oracle I, 1962
bronze with a dark brown patina on a wooden base
43 cm; 17 in high
Edition of 6
JC114
©Estate of Michael Ayrton
Provenance
Sotheby’s, London, 28 June 2006, lot 148, where purchased.Exhibitions
London, Grosvenor Gallery, Michael Ayrton: Bronzes, Paintings, Collages and Drawings 1962-1964, April-May 1964, no. 9, illustrated (another cast).Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, The Painter Behind the Canvas, May - October 2016.
Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, Jerwood Collection: 25 Years, January - April 2017.
London, Lyon & Turnbull, Sculpted: The Art of the Object, November - December 2018.
Literature
C.P. Snow, Michael Ayrton, Drawings and Sculpture, London, enlarged edition 1966, pages not numbered, pl. 127 (wax for bronze).P. Cannon-Brookes, Michael Ayrton, An Illustrated Commentary, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, 1978, p. 100, pl. 175 (another cast).
J. Hopkins, Michael Ayrton, A Biography, London, 1994, p. 277.
Collection catalogue, Jerwood Collection, London, 2012, p. 29.
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