MICHAEL AYRTON (1921 - 1975), DAEDALUS/ICARUS MATRIX (1968)

bronze (ed. 9)
44.5 BY 26.2 BY 23CM
Modelled in 1968

PROVENANCE
Keith Chapman Gallery, London
Private collection; purchased from the above

EXHIBITED
Michael Ayrton, Sears Vincent Price Gallery, Chicago, April-May 1969, cat. 15 (another cast)
Michael Ayrton, Reading Museum Art Gallery, 14 June-15 July 1969, cat. 243 (another cast)
Michael Ayrton: Beyond the Maze, Sears Vincent Price Gallery, Chicago, 5-28 December 1970, cat. 1 (another cast)
Michael Ayrton, Bruton Gallery, Bruton, Somerset, 9 October-6 November 1971, cat. 22 (another cast)
Word and Image I & II, National Book League, London, December 1971, cat. 107 (another cast)
Michael Ayrton, Grover Hermann Fine Arts Center, Marietta College, Ohio, 1972, cat. 26 (another cast)
Michael Ayrton: The Maze: Bronzes, Drawings, Etchings 1962-1972, R.S. Johnston International Gallery, Chicago, November 1972, cat. 22 (another cast)
Michael Ayrton: Maze and Minotaur, Portsmouth City Art Gallery, 3 February-3 March 1973; Southampton City Art Gallery, 10 March-7 April; Holburne Museum, Bath, 14 April-12 May; Exeter City Art Gallery, 19 May-16 June; Rye Art Gallery, 23 June-4 August, cat. 26 (another cast)
Michael Ayrton, Pennsylvania State University, Philadelphia, 6 May-17 June 1973, cat. 8 (another cast)
Michael Ayrton, DeWitt Cultural Center Gallery, Hope College, Holland, Missouri, 27 February-23 March 1978, cat. 9, (another cast)
Michael Ayrton: Recurring Themes and Images, Bruton Gallery, Bruton, Somerset, 10 May-14 June; National Museum of Wales, Turner House, Penarth, 10 May-14 June 1981, cat. 22 (another cast)
Michael Ayrton: Retrospective 1939-1975, Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London, December 1990-January 1991, cat. 56 (another cast)

LITERATURE

Michael Ayrton, The Rudiments of Paradise: Various Essays on Various Arts, Secker and Warburg, London, 1971, p. 293, illustrated (another cast), plate 69
Jacob E. Nyenhuis, Myth and the Creative Process: Michael Ayrton and the Myth of Daedalus, the Maze Maker, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 2003, pp. 145, illustrated (another cast), 157 (cat. 639)