MICHAEL AYRTON (1921 - 1975), MINOTAUR

suite of ten etchings plus cover sheet in folio 3/75. Individual prints entitled As Embryo, Consecrated, As Calf, As Yearling, Rising, Risen, Full Grown, Pent, Revealed and Alone
signed and dated 'michael ayrton' lower right and numbered '3/75' lower left, each sheet
78 BY 59CM (EACH SHEET)

PROVENANCE
Private collection, Melbourne

EXHIBITED
Michael Ayrton, Bruton Gallery, Bruton, Somerset, 9 October-6 November 1971, cat. 1-10 (another set)
Word and Image I & II, National Book League, London, December 1971, cat. 117 (another set)
The Maze and Beyond, Daedalus I Gallery, Detroit, 28 September-28 October 1972, cat. 1-10 (another set)
Michael Ayrton: The Maze: Bronzes, Drawings, Etchings 1962-1972, R.S. Johnston International Gallery, Chicago, November 1972, cat. 67-76 (another set)
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. 1-10 (another set)
Michael Ayrton, DeWitt Cultural Center Gallery, Hope College, Holland, Missouri, 27 February-23 March 1978, cat. 27-37 (another set)
Michael Ayrton, Lad Lane Gallery, Dublin, 9 September-4 October 1985 (another set)
Michael Ayrton, Christopher Hull Gallery, July 1987 (another set)
Michael Ayrton: Recurring Themes and Images: Retrospective 1939-1975, Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London, December 1990-January 1991, cat. 76-78 (three from another set)
Michael Ayrton, Beaux Arts Gallery, Bath, 20 September-9 October 1993 (another set)

LITERATURE
Fuse, London, No. 2, November 1971
Fuse, London, No. 4, November 1973
Peter Cannon-Brookes, Michael Ayrton: An Illustrated Commentary, City Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham, 1978, pp. 93, 98-99, illustrated
Michael and Elizabeth Ayrton, Minotaur!, Bran's Head Books, Frome, 1984, pp, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, 40, 44, 48, illustrated
Times Literary Suplement, London, 30 November 1990
Justine Hopkins, Michael Ayrton: A Biography, Andre Deutsch, London, 1994, pp. 358, 360
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. 182-183 (illustrated, figures 216-226), 284 (cat. 6726-735)