Zawn (Original Title 'Time')
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Medium - Bronze
Date - 21 November 1958
Size - 14 inches (35 cms) height
Edition - 3 plus 0
Exhibited - Waddingtons Gallery, London (1961). Marjorie Parr Gallery, London
(1969).
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol (1967). Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh (1968). Gillian
Jason
Gallery,
London (1990).
Festival Gallery, Bath (1978). Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea (1979). Penwith
Galleries, St Ives (1992). Gardner Arts Centre, Brighton (1993). Flowers East,
London (1993).
Collections - Private.
Auction details - Sold Christies, London, 11/1993, Hammer Price £720.00.
Sold
Ed 2, Phillips, Edinburgh, 05/2000, Hammer Price £950.00. Ed 3 of 3 Sold
Bonhams,
London, 11/2017, Hammer price £6,500.00
Publications
- Illustrated
Richard Demarco Catalogue (1968). Illustrated Glynn Vivian Gallery Catalogue,
Swansea
(1979). Illustrated Penwith
Galleries Catalogue, St Ives (1992)
Notes - A test cast in base
metal was sold at auction in 02/2007. It was bought by Denis's great friend Breon
O'casey who promptly destroyed it. Zawn
was either the first or second Bronze produced by Denis
and
for
some
reason
he
was very precise about the date of conception.
Unlike later works the work was
not heavily patinated but was not intended to be polished.
Zawn (in Cornish sawn)
is a deep and narrow sea-inlet, cut by erosion into sea-cliffs, and with steep
or vertical side-walls;
a cave through which the tide flows into a cliff.
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