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Chalk pits
Michael Ayrton (British, 1921–1975)
£1,000 hammer
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- Medium
- Gouache · Works on paper all gouache results →As published: “Ink, wash and gouache”
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed and dated March 15 '45 (lower left)
- Category
- Gouaches
- Dimensions
- 37 x 55cm
- Auction house
- Dreweatts
- Sale
- Modern and Contemporary Art (drewea1-10532)
- Date
- March 12, 2025
- Location
- Newbury, United Kingdom
- Lot
- 80
- Estimate
- £800 – £1,200 (≈ $1,036 – $1,554) (≈ €952 – €1,427)
- Source
- Auction house auctions.dreweatts.com ↗Retrieved Oct 11, 2026
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