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DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)

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ID 728605
Lot 31 | DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)
DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)

Disc with Strings (Sun)

numbered 7⁄9' (on the back of the base)

polished bronze and string, on a slate base

18 7⁄8 in. (47.9 cm.) high, excluding base

Conceived and cast in 1969.

This work is recorded as BH 485.







Provenance

with L.A. Louver, Los Angeles, where purchased by the present owner in September 1987.





Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth: Recent Sculpture, Paintings, Prints, London, Marlborough Fine Art, 1970, pp. 7, 29, no. 24, another cast illustrated.

B. Hepworth and A. Bowness, A Pictorial Autobiography, Bath, 1970, another cast illustrated on the inside covers.

Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth, Plymouth, City Art Gallery, 1970, n.p., no. 58, illustrated.

A. Bowness (ed.), The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960-69, London, 1971, p. 48, no. 485, pl. 186, another cast illustrated.

Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth: 50 Sculptures from 1935-1970, London, Gimpel Fils, 1975, n.p., no. 55, another cast illustrated.

Exhibition catalogue, Hepworth, New York, Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, 1977, n.p., no. 15, another cast illustrated.

Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth: Carvings and Bronzes, New York, Marlborough Fine Art, 1979, pp. 12, 49, no. 35, another cast illustrated.

Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth, London, Robert Sandleson, 2001, n.p., exhibition not numbered, another cast illustrated.





Exhibited

London, Marlborough Fine Art, Barbara Hepworth: Recent Sculpture, Paintings, Prints, February - March 1970, no. 24, another cast exhibited.

Plymouth, City Art Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, June - August 1970, no. 58.

Hakone, Open-Air Museum, Barbara Hepworth Exhibition, June - September 1970, no. 35.

St Ives, Penwith Society of Arts, Spring Exhibition, 1970, catalogue not traced.

London, Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth: 50 Sculptures from 1935-1970, October - November 1975, no. 55, another cast exhibited.

New York, Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, Hepworth, March - April 1977, no. 15, another cast exhibited.

O¯saka, Gallery Kasahara Garo¯, Barbara Hepworth, February - March 1978, no. 6, another cast exhibited.

Galashiels, Arts Council, Scottish College of Textiles, Barbara Hepworth: A selection of small bronzes and prints, April - May 1978, no. 24, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to Inverness, Museum and Art Gallery, June 1978; Dundee, Museum and Art Gallery, September 1978; Milngavie, Lillie Art Gallery, September - October 1978; Hawick, Museum and Art Gallery, October - November 1978; and Ayr, Maclaurin Art Gallery, November - December 1978.

Zürich, Gimpel-Hanover and André Emmerich Galerien, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson: Eln Dialog, November 1978 - January 1979, no. 6, another cast exhibited.

New York, Marlborough Fine Art, Barbara Hepworth: Carvings and Bronzes, May - June 1979, no. 35, another cast exhibited.

London, Robert Sandleson, Barbara Hepworth, November 2001 - January 2002, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited.





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Artist:Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975)
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Bronze
Art style:Modern art
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