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DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)

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Lot 108 | DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)
DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)

Sculpture with Colour

signed with initials, dated and numbered 'B.H. / 2/9 / 1940' (lower right edge of the base), inscribed with foundry mark and dated again 'M/S / 1968' (lower left edge of the base)

polished bronze, with pigment and strings, on a bronze base

6 in. (15.2 cm.) wide, including base

Conceived in 1940, and cast in 1968 by Morris Singer Foundry, London in an edition of 9, plus an artist's cast.

This work is recorded as BH 459.





Provenance

with Mercury Gallery, London, where purchased by the previous owner in 1969.

Their sale; Doyle, New York, 20 May 2020, lot 6, where purchased by the present owner.



Literature

J.P. Hodin, Barbara Hepworth, London, 1961, n.p., no. 117, plaster version illustrated.

A. Bowness, The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960-69, London, 1971, p. 46, no. 459.

Exhibition catalogue, The Non-Objective World 1914-1955, London, Annely Juda Fine Art, 1973, p. 89, no. 53, another cast illustrated.

Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth, 1903-1975: 50 sculptures from 1935 to 1970, London, Gimpel Fils, 1975, n.p., no. 6, another cast illustrated.

Exhibition catalogue, Hepworth, New York, Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, 1977, n.p., no 14, another cast illustrated.

S. Bowness (ed.), Barbara Hepworth The Plasters: The Gift to Wakefield, Farnham, 2011, pp. 36, 47, 104, no. 3, fig, 7, plaster cast and another cast illustrated.



Exhibited

London, Marlborough Fine Art, Art in Britain, 1930-40: Centred around Axis, Circle, Unit One, March - April 1965, ex. cat.

London, Tate Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, April - May 1968, no. 37.

London, Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth, October - November 1972, no. 2, another cast exhibited.

London, Annely Juda Fine Art, The Non-Objective World 1914-1955, July - September 1973, no. 53, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to Austin, University of Texas Art Museum, October - December.

London, Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth, 1903-1975: 50 sculptures from 1935 to 1970, October - November 1975, no. 6, another cast exhibited.

New York, Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, Hepworth, March - April 1977, no. 14, another cast exhibited.

Wakefield, City Art Gallery, BH: Polished Bronzes, May - June 2003, exhibition not numbered: this exhibition travelled to The Netherlands, Gouda, Museum Het Catharina Gasthuis, July - September 2003.



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