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BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)

Lot 19
09.11.2022 19:00UTC -05:00
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Starting price
$ 3 000 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 838974
Lot 19 | BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)
Estimate value
$ 3 000 000 – 5 000 000
BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)

Elegy III

signed, dated and numbered ‘Barbara Hepworth 1966 3/6’ (on the top of the base); inscribed with foundry mark ‘Morris Singer Founders London’ (on the back of the base)

bronze with brown and green patina

Height: 55 in. (139.5 cm.)

Conceived in 1966 and cast in 1967





Provenance

Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., London (acquired from the artist, June 1968).

Marlborough-Godard Gallery, Toronto (acquired from the above).

Private collection, Canada (acquired from the above, 1976, until at least 1995).

Haunch of Venison, London.

Acquired from the above by the late owner, 2003.



Literature

A. Bowness, ed., The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960-1969, London, 1971, no. 429 (another cast illustrated, pl. 158).

S. Bowness, ed., Barbara Hepworth: The Plasters, the Gift to Wakefield, London, 2011, p. 146, no. 26 (plaster illustrated in color, p. 147; other casts illustrated in situ at The Morris Singer foundry, p. 56, pl. 50).



Exhibited

London, Tate Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, April-May 1968, pp. 49 and 61, no. 169 (another cast illustrated in situ at the Rietveld Pavilion, p. 48; titled Hollow Form with Color).

London, Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., Recent Acquisitions, July-August 1968, no. 17 (illustrated).



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Post Lot Text

Elegy III is included as BH 429 in the Hepworth catalogue raisonné of sculptures being revised by Dr. Sophie Bowness.
Artist:Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975)
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Bronze
Art style:Modern art
Place of origin:Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom
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