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DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)

Lot 142
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ID 831304
Lot 142 | DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)
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£ 70 000 – 100 000
DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)

Three Oblique Forms (February)

signed, numbered and dated 'Barbara Hepworth/1967 5/9' (on the base)

polished bronze

10 1/4 in. (26.7 cm.) high, excluding base

Conceived in 1967 and cast by Morris Singer, London.

This work is recorded as BH442.





Provenance

with Laing Galleries, London, where purchased by P. Herriot in September 1968.

with New Art Centre, London.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 7 June 1991, lot 367.

Property from the Estate of Renee L. Rupert Granville-Grossman; Christie's, London, 20 November 2013, lot 2, where purchased by the present owner.



Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth, London, Tate Gallery, 1968, pp. 43, 61, no. 177.

A. Bowness (ed.), The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960-1969, London, 1971, p. 44, no. 442, pl. 162, another cast illustrated.

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

Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth, Valencia, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, 2004, p. 187, exhibition not numbered, another cast illustrated.

S. Bowness (ed.), Barbara Hepworth: The Plasters The Gift to Wakefield, Farnham, 2011, pp. 61, 63, 93, 140, 152, 154-155, no. 32, fig. 41, another cast and plaster version illustrated.

S. Bowness, Barbara Hepworth: The Sculptor in the Studio, London, 2017, pp. 107, 122-123, plaster version illustrated.



Exhibited

London, Tate Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, April - May 1968, no. 177.

St Ives, Guildhall, Exhibition on the Occasion of the Conferment of the Honorary Freedom of the Borough of St Ives on Bernard Leach and Barbara Hepworth, September - October 1968, another cast exhibited, ex. cat.

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

Wakefield, Art Gallery, Barbara Hepworth: Polished Bronzes, May - June 2003, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to Gouda, Museum Het Catharina, 2003; and Gasthuis, July - September 2003.

Valencia, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Barbara Hepworth, September - November 2004, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited.

Wakefield, The Hepworth Wakefield, Barbara Hepworth: Art and Life, May 2021- February 2022, another cast exhibited, exhibition not numbered: this exhibition travelled to Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, April - October 2022.



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Artist:Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975)
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Bronze
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