* Broido (Michael, 1927-2013). Composition, 2001?, gouache on thick card, initialled and dated in pencil to lower left, overall size 39.5 x 26cm (15.5 x 10.25ins), framed and glazedQty: (1)NOTESMichael Broido was born in London but moved to South Africa as a baby, returning to Britain twenty years later. Around 1956 he became a part-time gardener for the artist Patrick Heron at Eagle's Nest, near St.Ives, and for a couple of years worked in a studio there, influenced and mentored by Patrick Heron. Broido also worked for the sculptor Barbara Hepworth in St. Ives until 1962 and taught art at Truro Art School for twenty years. He exhibited both in Cornwall and elsewhere in the world.