Modern & Post-War British Art
Modern & Post-War British Art
Property from a Private Canadian Collection
DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH | SHELL FORM (MONASTRAL BLUE)
Auction Closed
November 20, 12:36 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH
1903-1975
SHELL FORM (MONASTRAL BLUE)
signed and dated 1960
oil on board
31.5 by 51cm.; 12¼ by 20¼in.
The Artist, from whom acquired by the mother of the present owner and thence by descent
'Abstract drawing has always been for me a particularly exciting adventure...' (Barbara Hepworth, quoted in Herbert Read (intro.) Barbara Hepworth, Carvings and Drawings, Lund Humphries, London, 1952)
We are grateful to Dr Sophie Bowness for her kind assistance with the cataloguing apparatus for the present work.