Acrobats II

Details

Michael Ayrton (1921-1975)
Acrobats II
numbered '5/9' (on the back of the stand)
bronze with a dark brown patina
51 in. (129.5 cm.) high
Conceived in 1958.

Provenance

with Bruton Gallery, London.

Literature

P. Cannon-Brookes, Michael Ayrton, Birmingham, 1978, pp. 64, 139, no. 113, another cast illustrated.
C.P. Snow, Michael Ayrton Drawings and Sculpture, Kent, 1962, no. 48, another cast illustrated.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

"I myself am an arthritic and can neither bend my permanently rigid back nor, for most of the time, move easily. I can achieve no athletic movement. I am in no doubt, looking back on the making of them, that these small bronzes were my substitutes for action at that time."

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