Maze Music

Details

Michael Ayrton (1921-1975)
Maze Music
signed and numbered 'Michael Ayrton 12/12' (on the side of the leg)
bronze with a dark brown patina
15½ in. (39.4 cm.) high
Conceived in 1972.

Provenance

Acquired by the present owner from the artist's estate.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Michael Ayrton Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings and Prints, London, Beaux Arts, 1995, another cast illustrated.

Exhibited

London, Beaux Arts, Michael Ayrton Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings and Prints, May - June 1995, another cast exhibited.

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

Maze Music leads on from the 1965 Maze Maker series in which Ayrton transforms the maze into a musical instrument. Refering to the earlier series Ayrton explains "[Daedalus] provided, as the creator of the labyrinth at Knossos in which the Minotaur was imprisoned, the starting point for the series ... He has become any man who, during his life, builds in and around himself a maze of circumstances and experiences and this, it seems to me we all do. This labyrinth has two inevitably linked functions. It excludes to protect and contains to imprison." (M. Ayrton, Michael Ayrton Drawings and Sculpture, London, 1966.)

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