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DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)

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Lot 22 | DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)
DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)

Preparation

signed and dated 'Barbara Hepworth/1949' (lower right), signed and dated again and inscribed 'Barbara Hepworth/1949/'Preparation'' (on the reverse)

oil and pencil on gesso-prepared board

14 ½ x 20 ½ in. (36.8 x 52.1 cm.)

Painted in 1949.

This work is recorded as D 211.





Provenance

Presented by the artist for sale in aid of the London Library; Christie's, London, 22 June 1960, lot 2.

with Piccadilly Gallery, London, where purchased by Sir Peter Wakefield, K.B.E., C.M.G.

with Michael Wright, Gloucestershire, where purchased by Simon Hilton in 1998.

with Michael Wright, Gloucestershire, where purchased by the present owner in October 2001.



Literature

H. Read (intro.), Barbara Hepworth: Carvings and Drawings, London, 1952, n.p., pl. 113.

J.P. Hodin, Barbara Hepworth, London, 1961, pp. 21, 149, 171, pl. h.

A. Bowness (intro.), Drawings from a Sculptor's Landscape, London, 1966, n.p., no. 29, illustrated.

N. Hepburn, exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth: The Hospital Drawings, Wakefield, The Hepworth Wakefield, 2012, pp. 108, 125, exhibition not numbered, illustrated.



Exhibited

New York, Durlacher Brothers, Barbara Hepworth, October 1949, no. 16.

London, Lefevre Gallery, New Sculpture and Drawings by Barbara Hepworth, February 1950, no. 47.

Venice, British Council, XXV Biennale, Exhibition of Works by John Constable, Matthew Smith, Barbara Hepworth, June - October 1950, no. 105.

Wakefield, City Art Gallery, Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture and Drawings, May - July 1951, no. 74: this exhibition travelled to York, City Art Gallery, July - August 1951; and Manchester, City Art Gallery, September - October 1951.

London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Barbara Hepworth: A Retrospective Exhibition of Carvings and Drawings from 1927 to 1954, April - June 1954, no. 126.

New York, Martha Jackson Gallery, Three British Artists: Hepworth, Scott, Bacon, October - November 1954, no. 9.

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Barbara Hepworth: Carvings and Drawings, April - May 1955, no. 21: this exhibition travelled to Lincoln, University of Nebraska Art Galleries, June - August 1955; San Francisco, Museum of Art, September - October 1955; New York, Albright Art Gallery, November - December 1955; Toronto, Art Gallery of Toronto, January - February 1956; Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, March 1956; Washington DC, Institute of Contemporary Arts at Corcoran Gallery of Art, May - September 1956; and Baltimore, Museum of Art, September - October 1956.

New York, Martha Jackson Gallery, Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, December 1956 - January 1957, exhibition not numbered.

London, Beaux Arts, Artists of Fame and Promise, June - September 1996, exhibition not numbered.

Bath, Holburne Museum of Art, Modern British Pictures from the Target Collection, October - December 2005, catalogue not traced.
Artist:Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975)
Applied technique:Pencil, Oil, Painted
Medium:Acrylic glass, Plastic
Art style:Modern art
Genre:Portrait
Category:Painting
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