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DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)

Lot 111
19.10.2023 13:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1051331
Lot 111 | DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)
Estimate value
£ 60 000 – 80 000
DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)

Mother and Child

signed with initials, numbered and stamped with foundry mark 'B.H. 1⁄9' (on the underside)

polished bronze, on a slate base

4 ¼ in. (10.8 cm.) high, excluding base

Conceived in ironstone in 1934 and cast in bronze in 1973 by Morris Singer Foundry, London.

This work is recorded as BH 558.





Provenance

William Darby, London.

with New Art Centre, Roche Court, where purchased by the present owner in August 2010.



Literature

H. Read, Barbara Hepworth: Carvings and Drawings, London, 1952, n.p., no. 31, ironstone version illustrated.

J.P. Hodin, Barbara Hepworth, London, 1961, p. 163, no. 60, ironstone version listed.

Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth 1903-1975, London, William Darby, 1975, n.p., no. 2, another cast illustrated.

Exhibition catalogue, Zwischentöne: Die Sammlung Forberg, Vienna, The Albertina Museum, 2011, p. 63, exhibition not numbered, another cast illustrated.



Exhibited

London, William Darby, Barbara Hepworth 1903-1975, November 1975, no. 2, another cast exhibited.

Wakefield, Wakefield Art Gallery, Barbara Hepworth: Polished Bronzes, May - June 2003, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to Gouda, Museum Het Catharina Gasthuis, July - September 2003.

Vienna, The Albertina Museum, Zwischentöne: Die Sammlung Forberg, October 2011 - January 2012, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited.
Artist:Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975)
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Bronze
Art style:Modern art
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