ID 1472868
Lot 8 | DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)
Estimate value
£ 1 500 000 – 2 500 000
Vertical Wood Form
lignum vitae, on a slate base, unique
19 in. (48.3 cm.) high, excluding base
Carved in 1968.
This work is recorded as BH 464.
Provenance
with Gimpel Fils, London, where purchased by Dr Oscar and Rose Norwich in November 1970.
Literature
M. Gale and C. Stephens, Barbara Hepworth: Works in the Tate Gallery Collection and the Barbara Hepworth Museum St Ives, London, 1999, p. 243.
A. Bowness (ed.), The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960-69, London, 1971, p. 45, no. 464, pl. 178.
Exhibited
New York, Gimpel Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, April - May 1969, n.p., no. 16, illustrated.
Further Details
We are very grateful to Dr Sophie Bowness for her assistance with the cataloguing apparatus for this work. Dr Sophie Bowness is preparing the revised catalogue raisonné of Hepworth’s sculpture.
| Artist: | Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975) |
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| Medium: | Wood |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Sculptures, Statues & Figures |
| Artist: | Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975) |
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| Medium: | Wood |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Sculptures, Statues & Figures |
| Address of auction |
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