Property from a Private Collection, UK
Dame Barbara Hepworth
Bird Flight
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June 6, 05:43 PM GMT
Estimate
180,000 - 250,000 GBP
Lot Details
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Property from a Private Collection, UK
Dame Barbara Hepworth
1903 - 1975
Bird Flight
slate
height (excluding base): 34cm.; 13½in.
height (including base): 37.5cm.; 14¾in.
width: 30cm.; 11¾in.
Conceived in 1971, this work is unique.
This work will be included in the revised catalogue raisonné of Barbara Hepworth's sculpture being prepared by Dr. Sophie Bowness under the catalogue no. BH 530.
The Estate of the Artist, from whom acquired by the present owners, 8 March 2006, via the New Art Centre, Salisbury
London, Marlborough Gallery, Barbara Hepworth: The Family of Man – Nine Bronzes and Recent Carvings, April – May 1972, no. 16, illustrated in the exh. cat. p. 66
Wakefield, Wakefield Art Gallery, Barbara Hepworth: Late Carvings, 11 May - 20 July 1985 , no. 6, illustrated in the exh. cat. p. 13
Liverpool, Tate Liverpool, Barbara Hepworth: A Retrospective, 1994-95, no. 80, illustrated in the exh. cat. p. 135, with tour to Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, and the Art Gallery of Toronto, Ottawa
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