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MICHAEL AYRTON (1921 - 1975), FUTURE BARLEY
MICHAEL AYRTON (1921 - 1975), FUTURE BARLEYEstimate $4,000 – $6,000
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oil and collage on canvas
signed and dated 'Michael Ayrton '65' lower left; titled and dated 'THE FUTURE/BARLEY/1965' on reverse
47.5 BY 35.5CM
PROVENANCE
Jonathan Poole Gallery, Compton Cassey, U.K.
Private collection Melbourne, purchased from the above
EXHIBITED
(possibly) Michael Ayrton, Grosvenor Gallery, London, 7 June-2 July 1966.
Future Barley is from an extended sequence of paintings, drawings, collages and sculptures the artist completed during the mid-1960s dealing with the theme of seasonal death and rebirth, particularly as manifested in the Greek myths of Demeter and Persephone.
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