Michael Ayrton : Drawings and Sculpture. 1962 (First Edition)
“The Illustrations in this volume represent the results of Michael Ayrton’s venture into sculpture – a medium in which he received no formal training other than the advice of Henry Moore and a passionate study of the works of Donatello, Degas, Rodin, and other masters. After overcoming the initial problem of making a start in the new medium after 15 years of continuous drawing and painting, Ayrton first exhibited bronzes in 1955, and sculpture now took primary placed in his thought. Bat – as he says – ‘it starts from drawing ; there are times when one’s drawings , coming out from the paper , insist on becoming a sculpture.” Contents: Foreword by C.P. Snow, Biographical note, Notes by the artist. The images included are arranged into the following categories : Transition, First Sculpture, Figures in Balance, Bone Sequence, Wax and Bone Reliefs, Bathers, Predicaments, Daedalus – Icarus, Work in Progress.
Title: Michael Ayrton : Drawings and Sculpture
Author: C.P. Snow
Publisher: Cory, Adams & Mackay
Publication date: 1962 (First Edition)
Format: Red-orange cloth-bound Hardcover with silver titles to spine and pictorial dust jacket
Pages:100+ unpaginated pages
Images: 139
Condition: Dust jacket bright, stiff and clean, there is slight delamination around the spine and losses to the spine tips. Boards firm and clean, bound handsomely in fine red-orange cloth with sharp corners and an embossed gilt design; Internally clean, no ownership mark or annotation. Binding tight. Overall a very nice copy of this well-produced edition, in a presentable dust jacket.; small losses. Otherwise very good.
Stock Number: RB01852
“The Illustrations in this volume represent the results of Michael Ayrton’s venture into sculpture – a medium in which he received no formal training other than the advice of Henry Moore and a passionate study of the works of Donatello, Degas, Rodin, and other masters. After overcoming the initial problem of making a start in the new medium after 15 years of continuous drawing and painting, Ayrton first exhibited bronzes in 1955, and sculpture now took primary placed in his thought. Bat – as he says – ‘it starts from drawing ; there are times when one’s drawings , coming out from the paper , insist on becoming a sculpture.” Contents: Foreword by C.P. Snow, Biographical note, Notes by the artist. The images included are arranged into the following categories : Transition, First Sculpture, Figures in Balance, Bone Sequence, Wax and Bone Reliefs, Bathers, Predicaments, Daedalus – Icarus, Work in Progress.
Title: Michael Ayrton : Drawings and Sculpture
Author: C.P. Snow
Publisher: Cory, Adams & Mackay
Publication date: 1962 (First Edition)
Format: Red-orange cloth-bound Hardcover with silver titles to spine and pictorial dust jacket
Pages:100+ unpaginated pages
Images: 139
Condition: Dust jacket bright, stiff and clean, there is slight delamination around the spine and losses to the spine tips. Boards firm and clean, bound handsomely in fine red-orange cloth with sharp corners and an embossed gilt design; Internally clean, no ownership mark or annotation. Binding tight. Overall a very nice copy of this well-produced edition, in a presentable dust jacket.; small losses. Otherwise very good.
Stock Number: RB01852
“The Illustrations in this volume represent the results of Michael Ayrton’s venture into sculpture – a medium in which he received no formal training other than the advice of Henry Moore and a passionate study of the works of Donatello, Degas, Rodin, and other masters. After overcoming the initial problem of making a start in the new medium after 15 years of continuous drawing and painting, Ayrton first exhibited bronzes in 1955, and sculpture now took primary placed in his thought. Bat – as he says – ‘it starts from drawing ; there are times when one’s drawings , coming out from the paper , insist on becoming a sculpture.” Contents: Foreword by C.P. Snow, Biographical note, Notes by the artist. The images included are arranged into the following categories : Transition, First Sculpture, Figures in Balance, Bone Sequence, Wax and Bone Reliefs, Bathers, Predicaments, Daedalus – Icarus, Work in Progress.
Title: Michael Ayrton : Drawings and Sculpture
Author: C.P. Snow
Publisher: Cory, Adams & Mackay
Publication date: 1962 (First Edition)
Format: Red-orange cloth-bound Hardcover with silver titles to spine and pictorial dust jacket
Pages:100+ unpaginated pages
Images: 139
Condition: Dust jacket bright, stiff and clean, there is slight delamination around the spine and losses to the spine tips. Boards firm and clean, bound handsomely in fine red-orange cloth with sharp corners and an embossed gilt design; Internally clean, no ownership mark or annotation. Binding tight. Overall a very nice copy of this well-produced edition, in a presentable dust jacket.; small losses. Otherwise very good.
Stock Number: RB01852
