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DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)

Lot 19
16.10.2024 16:30UTC +00:00
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ID 1306818
Lot 19 | DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)
Estimate value
£ 250 000 – 350 000
DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)
Forms in Movement (Pavan)
signed, numbered, dated and stamped with foundry mark 'Barbara Hepworth 1956 7/7/CAST 1967' (on the base)
bronze with a dark green and white patina
43 in. (109.2 cm.) wide
Conceived in concrete in 1956-59 and cast in bronze by Morris Singer Founders, London, in 1967.
This work is recorded as BH 453.




Provenance

with Gimpel Fils, London, where purchased by the present owner's father in 1968, and by descent.



Literature

C. Nemser, ‘In the Galleries’, Arts, Vol. 43, no. 7, May 1969, p. 59.
E. Mullins, exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth Exhibition, Japan, Hakone Open-Air Museum, 1970, n.p.
A. Bowness (ed.), The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960-69, London, 1971, p. 46, no. 453.
D.F. Jenkins, Barbara Hepworth: A Guide to the Tate Gallery Collection at London and St Ives, Cornwall, 1982, pp. 17, 30, another cast illustrated.
Tate Gallery Acquisitions 1980-82, London, 1984, pp. 114-115, another cast illustrated.
M. Williams, People and Places in Cornwall, 1985, p. 59.
P. Curtis and A.G. Wilkinson, exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth: A Retrospective, Liverpool, Tate Gallery, 1994, p. 99.
S. Festing, Barbara Hepworth: A Life of Forms, New York, 1995, p. 224.
P. Curtis, Barbara Hepworth, London, 1998, p. 39.
M. Gale and C. Stephens, Barbara Hepworth: Works in the Tate Gallery Collection and the Barbara Hepworth Museum St Ives, London, 1999, pp. 154-157, no. 36, another cast illustrated.
S. Bowness (ed.), Barbara Hepworth: The Plasters: The Gift to Wakefield, Farnham, 2011, pp. 112-113.
C. Chevillot and S. Matson, exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth, Paris, Musée Rodin, 2019, p. 27, fig. 4, another cast illustrated.



Exhibited

London, Tate Gallery, Barbara Hepworth: A Retrospective, April - May 1968, no. 78, another cast exhibited.
London, Financial Times Foyer, Sculpture Exhibition: City of London Festival, June 1968, no. 22, another cast exhibited.
London, Syon Park, Sculpture Exhibition, Summer 1968, another cast exhibited, catalogue not traced.
New York, Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, Barbara Hepworth, April - May 1969, n.p., no. 15, as ‘Pavan’, another cast illustrated.
London, Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth 1903-75, October - November 1975, n.p., no. 11, another cast illustrated.
Norwich, Castle Museum, on long term loan, 2018 - 2023.
Artist:Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975)
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Bronze
Art style:Modern art
Place of origin:Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom
Auction house category:Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings
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