DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)

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Lot 136 | DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)
DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)

Small Hieroglyph

numbered '6/10' (on the underside of each form)

polished bronze

4 1/8 in. (10.4 cm.) high

Conceived and cast in 1959 by Holman's Foundry, St Just.

This work is recorded as BH 268.





Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by Miss D.J. Halliday.

with Galerie Nova Spectra, The Hague, where purchased by the present owner in 1992.



Literature

J.P. Hodin, Barbara Hepworth, London, 1961, p. 170, no. 268.

Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth: 50 Sculptures from 1935-1970, London, Gimpel Fils, 1975, n.p., no. 24, another cast illustrated.

S. Bowness (ed.), Barbara Hepworth: Writings and Conversations, London, 2015, p. 160.

Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth: Divided Circle, Cambridge, The Heong Gallery, 2019, pp. 6, 9, 57-58, exhibition not numbered, pl. 1, another cast illustrated.

Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth: Work from 1958-1973, Salisbury, New Art Centre, 2020, n.p., exhibition not numbered, another cast illustrated.



Exhibited

London, Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth, May 1961, no. 8, another cast exhibited.

London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Barbara Hepworth: an Exhibition of Sculpture from 1952-1962, May - June 1962, no. 43, another cast exhibited.

London, Tate Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, April - May 1968, no. 98, another cast exhibited.

London, Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth, October - November 1972, no. 13, another cast exhibited.

London, Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth: 50 Sculptures from 1935-1970, October - November 1975, no. 24, another cast exhibited.

Wakefield, City Art Gallery, Barbara Hepworth: Polished Bronzes, May - June 2003, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to Gouda, Museum het Catharina Gasthuis, July - September 2003, catalogue not traced.

Salisbury, New Art Centre, The Hepworth Wakefield: A Celebration, April - May 2011, another cast exhibited, catalogue not traced.

Cambridge, The Heong Gallery, Barbara Hepworth: Divided Circle, November 2019 - February 2020, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited.

Salisbury, New Art Centre, Barbara Hepworth: Work from 1958-1973, March - April 2020, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited.



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