
Auction Closed
November 20, 12:36 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH
1903-1975
FIGURE V (STANDING WOMAN, RIGHT HAND RAISED)
signed and dated 25 on the base
bronze
height (including Artist's base): 42cm.; 16½in.
Conceived in 1922-23 and cast in 1925, the present work is unique.
Acquired directly from the Artist by Claude de Berry and thence by descent
Acquired from the above by Clare Sack
Sale, Christie's London, 23rd October 1996, lot 41, where acquired by the present owner
Matthew Gale and Chris Stephens, Barbara Hepworth, Works in the Tate Gallery Collection and the Barbara Hepworth Museum St Ives, Tate Gallery Publishing, London, 1999, illustrated p.11, fig.2.
We are grateful to Dr Sophie Bowness for her kind assistance with the cataloguing apparatus for the present work. The present work will be recorded in the appendix to her forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Barbara Hepworth's sculpture as ex. cat. I.