ID 922661
Lot 111 | DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)
Estimate value
£ 40 000 – 60 000
Two Forms (Domino)
signed, numbered, dated and stamped with foundry mark 'Barbara Hepworth 1969 0/9' (on the side of the base)
polished bronze with a blue patina in the interior, on a bronze base
9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm.) high, including base
Conceived in 1969 and cast by Morris Singer Foundry, London.
This work is recorded as BH 486.
Provenance
The Hepworth Estate, and by descent.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 17 October 1990, lot 110.
Renée L. Rupert Granville-Grossman.
Her estate sale; Christie's, London, 21 November 2013, lot 207, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth: Recent Work, London, Marlborough Fine Art, 1970, p. 29, no. 25, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth, Plymouth, City Art Gallery, 1970, n.p., no. 59, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth Exhibition, Hakone, The Hakone Open-Air Museum, 1970, n.p., no. 36, another cast illustrated.
A. Bowness (ed.), The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960-69, London, 1971, pp. 48-49, no. 486, another cast illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Barbara Hepworth: Recent Work, February - March 1970, no. 25, another cast exhibited.
Plymouth, City Art Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, June - August 1970, no. 59, another cast exhibited.
Hakone, The Hakone Open-Air Museum, Barbara Hepworth Exhibition, June - September 1970, no. 36, another cast exhibited.
New York, Gimpel Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, March - April 1971, no. 13, another cast exhibited.
Special notice
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) |
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Applied technique: | Metalwork |
Medium: | Bronze |
Art style: | Modern art |
Artist: | Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975) |
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Applied technique: | Metalwork |
Medium: | Bronze |
Art style: | Modern art |
Address of auction |
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