The Mystic
Created by Newton Herbert Penprase
Date: 1930
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Material: processed and vegetal - plaster
Technique: carved
Description: John Hewitt, Keeper of Fine Art at the Belfast Museum and Art Gallery describes The Mystic as: 'A gaunt, emaciated mask with shut lids and a single eye staring from the middle of a high bald forehead' (Bendhu and its Builders, 2009, p. 219)
Publications
Black & white illustration in All his own work: Newton Penprase: a documentary exhibition, 1977
Illustrated in Drawings, Paintings & Sculptures: The Catalogue, 2000
Illustrated in Bendhu and its Builders
p. 219
Sources
All his own work: Newton Penprase: a documentary exhibition, 1977
1977
p. 5 (56)
Bendhu and its Builders
2009
p. 219
Citing this record
'The Mystic', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=msib3_1260787362, accessed 30 Sep 2023]
