ID 1388516
Lot 138 | DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)
Estimate value
£ 60 000 – 80 000
Stringed figure with yellow
signed and dated 'Barbara Hepworth 1960' (lower right), signed again, inscribed and dated again 'Barbara Hepworth/''Stringed figure with yellow''/1960' (on the reverse)
oil and pencil on board
13 1/8 x 20 in. (33.3 x 50.8 cm.)
Painted in 1960.
This work is recorded as D 429.
Provenance
with Gimpel Fils, London, where purchased by Mrs Keith Wood in July 1965.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 22 June 1994, lot 119.
Anonymous sale; Hartley's, Ilkley, 22 June 2011, lot 601, where purchased by the present owner.
Exhibited
Zürich, Galerie Charles Lienhard, Barbara Hepworth, October - November 1960, no. 41.
Zürich, Galerie Charles Lienhard, Accrochage: Exhibition of Paintings, August 1962, no. 325.
London, Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture and Drawings, June 1964, one of sixteen works nos. 44-60.
Further details
We are very grateful to Dr Sophie Bowness and Jenna Lundin Aral for their assistance with the cataloguing apparatus for this work. Dr Sophie Bowness and Jenna Lundin Aral are preparing the revised catalogue raisonné of Hepworth’s paintings.
| Artist: | Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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