Modern & Post-War British Art

Modern & Post-War British Art

MICHAEL AYRTON

THUNDER APPROACHING

Lot Closed

November 17, 03:48 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

MICHAEL AYRTON

1921 - 1975

THUNDER APPROACHING


signed michael ayrton and dated February - March 1948. (lower right); also signed AYRTON, titled, dated December 27 '47. March 21st 1948 and inscribed (on the reverse); further signed Michael Ayrton, titled and inscribed (on the Artist's label on the stretcher bar)

oil on canvas

unframed: 84 by 110.5cm.; 33 by 43¼in.

framed: 107 by 131cm.; 42 by 51½in.

Executed in December 1947 - March 1948.

Exeter College, Oxford

Sale, Sotheby's, London, 2 June 2004, lot 78, where acquired by the present owner

Peter Cannon-Brookes, Michael Ayrton, B. H. Blackwell, Oxford, 1978, no. 44, p. 138, illustrated p. 29

Wakefield, Wakefield City Art Gallery, Michael Ayrton: Paintings, Drawings, Theatre Design, 1949 no. 37, illustrated in the catalogue (where lent by the Artist)

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