Property From A Prestigious European Collection
Four Figures Waiting
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Property From A Prestigious European Collection
Dame Barbara Hepworth
1903 - 1975
Four Figures Waiting
signed Barbara Hepworth, dated 1968, numbered 2/9 and stamped with foundry mark Morris Singer FOUNDERS/ LONDON (on the Artist's integral base)
polished bronze
height (including Artist's base): 60cm.; 23½in.
Conceived in 1968, the present work is number 2 from the edition of 9.
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 461.
The Hepworth Estate, where acquired by Private Collection, Germany, 23 June 1997, via the New Art Centre, Salisbury
Sale, Sotheby’s London, 20 November 2018, lot 12
Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, London, from whom acquired by the present owners in 2022
Michael Shepherd, 'Gleaming from the Past', in The Sunday Telegraph, 15 February 1970, p. 17 (another cast)
Marina Vaizey, 'Gallery Choice: Gimpel Fils', Arts Review, 14th March 1970 (another cast)
'Barbara Hepworth: The Artist and Her Work', Bijutsu Techo, August 1970, vol. 22, no. 331, illustrated p. 16 (another cast)
Alan Bowness, The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth, 1960-69, Lund Humphries, London, 1971, no. BH461, illustrated pl. 12 (another cast)
Janet Axten, Gasworks to Gallery: The Story of Tate St Ives, Janet Axten and Colin Orchard, St Ives, 1995, illustrated p. 30 (another cast)
Sophie Bowness (ed.), Barbara Hepworth - The Plasters: The Gift to Wakefield, Lund Humphries in association with The Hepworth Wakefield, Farnham, 2011, illustrated p. 40, pl. 24 (plaster version)
New York, Gimpel-Weitzenhoffer Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, April - May 1969, no. 10, illustrated (another cast)
Bath, Bath Festival Gallery, St Ives Group, 2nd Exhibition: 1969 Bath Festival, June 1969, no. 2 (another cast)
St Ives, Penwith Society of Arts, Penwith Spring Exhibition, Spring 1969, no. 7
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Barbara Hepworth Recent Work, Sculpture, Paintings, Prints, February - March 1970, no. 12, illustrated p. 21 (another cast)
Abbotsholme, Uttoxeter, Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture and Lithographs, January - February 1970, no. 14, illustrated p. 22 (another cast), with UK tour
London, Gimpel Fils, Gallery Choice, March - April 1970, no. 32 (another cast)
Plymouth, City Art Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, June - August 1970, no. 50, illustrated (another cast)
Hakone, Hakone Open-Air Museum, Barbara Hepworth Exhibition 1970, June - September 1970, no. 27, illustrated p. 55 (another cast), with tour to Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
New York, Gimpel Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, March - April 1971, no. 7 (another cast)
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Masters of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Summer 1972, no. 30, illustrated p. 60 (another cast)
Rome, Marlborough Galleria d’Arte, Maestri del XIX e XX Secolo, November 1972 - January 1973, no. 16, illustrated p. 28 (another cast)
Zurich, Marlborough Galerie, Barbara Hepworth, August - October 1975, no. 6, illustrated p. 19 (another cast)
High Wycombe, Burleighfield House (Burleighfield International Arts Centre), Sculptures by Barbara Hepworth, October 1977 (another cast)
Galashiels, Scottish College of Textiles, Barbara Hepworth: a Selection of Small Bronzes and Prints, April 1978 - March 1979, no. 21 (another cast)
Bournemouth, Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, The Russell-Cotes Modern Artists Exhibition 1979, January - February 1979 (another cast)
New York, Marlborough Gallery, Barbara Hepworth: Carvings and Bronzes, May - June 1979, no. 30, illustrated p. 54
Swansea, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery and Museum, Barbara Hepworth: A Sculptor’s Landscape 1934-1974, October 1982 - February 1983, no. 21, illustrated p. 20 (another cast), with tour to Bangor, Wrexham and Isle of Man
Roche Court, East Winterslow, New Art Centre Sculpture Park and Gallery, Barbara Hepworth Polished Bronzes, December 2001 - February 2002, illustrated (another cast)
Wakefield, Wakefield Art Gallery, Barbara Hepworth: Polished Bronzes/ Hepworth in Brons: Gepolijste bronzen van Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975), May - June 2003, with tour to Museum het Catharina Gasthuis, Gouda (another cast)
Salisbury, Roche Court, New Art Centre, Barbara Hepworth: Work from 1958-1973, March - May 2020 (another cast)
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