Taut Form

Details

Denis Mitchell (1912-1993)
Taut Form
stamped with initials, dated and numbered 'D.A.M/59./1.' (at the base)
bronze with a polished patina, on a slate base
36½ in. (92.7 cm.) high, excluding base
Conceived in 1959 in an edition of 6 plus an artist's cast.

Provenance

Acquired by the present owner in 1979.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Festival Exhibition of Sculpture by Denis Mitchell, Swansea, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery and Museum, 1979, n.p., another cast illustrated.

Exhibited

London, Waddington Galleries, Denis Mitchell: sculpture, May 1961, no. 5, another cast exhibited.
Chicago, Devorah Sherman Gallery, Denis Mitchell: sculpture, February - March 1962, no. 3, another cast exhibited.

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Lot Essay

'A Mitchell is a form, usually a single, rather stream-lined form enclosed as it were by a single skin - but a skin or surface which weaves and bends and buckles and stretches' (Patrick Heron quoted in exhibition catalogue, Denis Mitchell Sculptor, Penwith Galleries, St. Ives, 1992, p. 13).

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