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DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)

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ID 922556
Lot 6 | DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)
DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)

Small Oval

alabaster, on a slate base, unique

8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm.) long, excluding base

Carved in 1963.

This work is recorded as BH 352.





Provenance

with Gimpel Fils, London.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 11 May 1989, lot 409.

with New Art Centre, Salisbury, where purchased by Joy Barnes in February 1996.

Her sale; Greenslade Taylor Hunt, Taunton, 20 Sepember 2012, lot 119.

with Richard Green, London, where purchased by the present owner in November 2013.



Literature

A. Bowness (ed.), The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960-69, London, 1971, p. 36, no. 352, pl. 89.

Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth: 50 Sculptures from 1935 to 70, London, Gimpel Fils, 1975, n.p., no. 42, illustrated.



Exhibited

London, Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture and Drawings, June 1964, no. 38.

London, Tate Gallery, Barbara Hepworth: Retrospective Exhibition, April - May 1968, no. 140.

London, Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth: 50 Sculptures from 1935 to 70, October - November 1975, no. 42.

London, Gimpel Fils, Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth, June - September 1990, no. 10.

London, Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth, October - November 1994, ex. cat.



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Artist:Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975)
Art style:Modern art
Place of origin:Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom
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