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Lot 230AR

Michael Ayrton
(British, 1921-1975)
Windy Day

15 April 2025, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Michael Ayrton (British, 1921-1975)

Windy Day
signed, titled, dated and inscribed 'windy day./michael ayrton/Wooded Hill nr Bridge. Kent. 16.7.1945' (lower right)
pen and ink, ink, pencil and wash on paper
25.75 x 35.5cm (10 1/8 x 13 15/16in).

Footnotes

Listed as Wooded Hill on a Windy Day in an original record, this work was bought by Bernard Denvir.

During the war Ayrton spent several periods of time in Kent, staying at the home of actor Miles Malleson, an old friend of his parents. A commission from the War Artists' Advisory Committee meant that he had a permit to sketch in the countryside (otherwise an occupation liable to bring the sketcher to the attention of local police) and he took full advantage of the freedom, filling sketchbooks with ideas for paintings alongside finished drawings like this one, of which he thought sufficiently highly to include it in his record of paintings, and to exhibit it on at least one occasion in a mixed show, where it was bought by distinguished art historian Bernard Denvir.

We are grateful to Justine Hopkins for compiling this catalogue entry.

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