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DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)

Lot 108
23.03.2022 13:00UTC +00:00
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ID 728734
Lot 108 | DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)
Estimate value
£ 50 000 – 80 000
DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)

Two curved forms on a grey ground

signed and dated 'Barbara Hepworth/1947' (lower right)

pencil and oil on canvas laid on board

12 x 15 7⁄8 in. (30.5 x 40.6 cm.)

Painted in 1947.

This work is recorded as D 125.







Provenance

with Martha Jackson Gallery, New York.

Sam and Ayala Zacks, Toronto.

Their sale; Auction for the Israel Relief Fund, Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto, 27 June 1967, lot 28, where purchased by Anne L. Mirvish, and by descent to the previous owner.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 26 June 2015, lot 164, where purchased by the present owner.





Literature

H. Read (intro.), Barbara Hepworth: Carvings and Drawings, London, 1952, n.p., no. 94b, illustrated.





Exhibited

London, Lefevre Gallery, Paintings by Barbara Hepworth: Paintings by L.S. Lowry, April 1948, probably no. 60, as 'Two sculptures round and long'.

London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Barbara Hepworth: A Retrospective Exhibition of Carvings and Drawings from 1927 to 1954, April - June 1954, no. 105.

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Barbara Hepworth: Carvings and Drawings 1937-1954, April - May 1955, no. 19: this exhibition travelled to Nebraska, University of Nebraska Art Galleries, June - August 1955; San Francisco, Museum of Art, September - October 1955; Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, November - December 1955; Toronto, Art Gallery, January - February 1956; Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, March 1956; Baltimore, Museum of Art, April - June 1956; and New York, Martha Jackson Gallery, December 1956 - January 1957.





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Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
Artist:Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975)
Applied technique:Pencil, Oil, Painted
Medium:Acrylic glass, Plastic
Art style:Modern art
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