Michael Ayrton
Talos, Armed Head II, 1957
bronze with a dark brown patina on a wooden base
56.5 cm; 22 ¼ in high
Edition of 6
JC107
©Estate of Michael Ayrton
Provenance
M. Vestrick.Sotheby’s, London, 14 March 2006, lot 93, where purchased.
Exhibitions
London, Bruton Gallery, Michael Ayrton: Work of the 1950s, no. 12 (another cast): this exhibition toured to Penarth, National Museum of Wales, and Bristol, Peter Sands Gallery.London, Bruton Gallery, Michael Aurton Recurring Themes & Images, March-May 1981, no. 83, illustrated p. 44 (another cast).
London, Sotheby's, Jerwood Collection: 25, 8-12 June 2018.
Literature
Exhibition Catalogue, Jerwood Collection; 25, 2018, p.24, illustrated.C.P. Snow, Michael Ayrton, Drawings and Sculpture, London, enlarged edition 1966, pages not numbered, pl. 52 (another cast).
P. Cannon-Brookes, Michael Ayrton, An Illustrated Commentary, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, 1978, pp. 54 and 57, pl. 98 (another cast).
J. Hopkins, Michael Ayrton, A Biography, London, 1994, pp. 198, 209-10 and 275.
Collection catalogue, Jerwood Collection, London, 2012, p. 29.
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