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Medals
Reference:5711 Michael Ayrton, 1996
Head of Michael Ayrton, facing./
A representation of the minotaur.
By Ian Rank-Broadley.
Bronze, cast. 100 mm. square.
Condition: Extremely Fine
Notes:
Issued by the British Art Medal Society in 1996 in an edition of 59.
Michael Ayrton (1921-75), painter, sculptor, writer and broadcaster; the obverse is based on a self-portrait executed in 1961, and the reverse on an archetype of a mythologiccal creature, half-man and half-bull. This vision much occupied Ayrton, and the design is taken from one of his etchings.
References:
The Medal 29 (1996), 141-42.
Eimer 2192