DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)

Lot 7
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ID 1174999
Lot 7 | DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)
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DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)

Maquette for Winged Figure

brass with Isopon and metal string, on a concrete base

24 in. (61 cm.) high, including base

Conceived in 1957 in an edition of 8.

This work is recorded as BH 227.





Provenance

Sir Keith Showering, by 1961, and by descent to the present owner.



Literature

J.P. Hodin, Barbara Hepworth, London, 1961, p. 169, no. 227.

P. Curtis and A.G. Wilkinson, exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth: A Retrospective, Liverpool, Tate, 1994, pp. 138, 164, no. 55, another from the edition illustrated.

C. Chevillot, S. Matson and S. Bowness, exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth, Paris, Musée Rodin, 2019, p. 122, no. 66, another from the edition illustrated.



Exhibited

London, Gimpel Fils, Recent Work by Barbara Hepworth, June 1958, ex-cat, no. 22, another from the edition exhibited.

Trenton, The New Jersey State Museum, Festival '72: Exhibition of Decorative and Fine Arts from New Jersey Private Collections, May - September 1972, another from the edition exhibited, catalogue not traced.

Liverpool, Tate, Barbara Hepworth: A Retrospective, September - December 1994, no. 55, another from the edition exhibited.

Nancy, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Barbara Hepworth, January - March 2006, another from the edition exhibited. .

Kendal, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Barbara Hepworth: Within the Landscape, July - September 2014, another from the edition exhibited.

Paris, Musée Rodin, Barbara Hepworth, November 2019 - March 2020, no. 66, another from the edition exhibited.

Margate, Turner Contemporary, Beyond Form: Lines of Abstraction, 1950-1970, February - May 2024, another from the edition exhibited.
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