Denis Mitchell, British 1912-1993 - Lamorna, 1969; bronze, conceived in 1969 in an edition of 5, initialled, titled, dated and numbered under base ‘DAM Lamorna 1969 2/5’, 53.5(H) x 21(W) x 10(D) cm including base (ARR) Provenance: Marjorie Parr Gallery, London; private collection, purchased from the above in April 1969 Exhibited: Marjoria Parr Gallery, London, 'Denis Mitchell', 6 February-1 March 1969, another cast; Festival Gallery, Bath, 1978, another cast; Penwith Galleries, St Ives, 1970, another cast; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, 1979; Tate St Ives, 'Denis Mitchell, Ascending Forms’, 22 January-2 May 2005, another cast; Penwith Society, St. Ives, 'The Penwith - A Society Like No Other: 70th Anniversary Exhibition', 5 October-2 November 2019, another cast Literature: Marjorie Parr Gallery, London, 6 February-1 March 1969, no.23, with an introductory essay by Patrick Heron; Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea, 'Denis Mitchell', 1979, no.16, another cast illus.; Tate St Ives, 'Denis Mitchel, Ascending Forms' (2005), another cast illus. p.20 Note: with thanks to the Estate of Denis Mitchell for their assistance with the cataloguing of this work. Denis Mitchell was a significant member of the St Ives group. This work, an abstract exploration of form, mass, and space, is typical of Mitchell’s output, and reveals the influence of contemporaries such as Barbara Hepworth, with whom he worked as an assistant for 10 years. Mitchell’s central presence in the thriving artistic scene of St Ives was cemented in 1955, when he became chairman of the Penwith Society of Arts, members of which included Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, John Wells, Bryan Wynter and Wilhelmina Barns-Graham. Works by Mitchell are in collections across the globe, including the Arts Council of Great Britain, the Tate Gallery in London, the National Gallery of New South Wales in Australia, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in California, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. Please refer to department for condition report