Maze Music 1972

MICHAEL AYRTON (1921-1975, British)

Maze Music 1972

bronze with cords
42.0 x 35.0 x 11.0 cm
inscribed: Michael Ayrton 4/12
edition: 4/12

Provenance:
Bruton Gallery, United Kingdom, 1978
Ruth Prowse, Canberra, thence by descent
Private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited:
Maze and Minotaur, Bruton Gallery, London, 1973, cat.36
Ruth Prowse - Thirty years of collecting, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, 1 April - 16 May 2004, pp.6-7 (illus.)

Reference:
Snow, C.P., Michael Ayrton, Drawings and Sculpture, Cory, Adams & Mackay Ltd., London, 1966, cat.192 (illus.)
Cannon-Brookes, P., Michael Ayrton: an illustrated commentary, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham, 1978, cat.36, p.127 (illus.)
Nuyenhuis, J., Myth and the Creative Process,
Michael Ayrton and the Myth of Daedalus, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 2003, cat.780, fig.246, p.288

Estimate: $12000 - 16000

Result Hammer: $9,500