Modern & Post-War British Art Day Sale
Modern & Post-War British Art Day Sale
Lot Closed
July 30, 12:02 PM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH
1903-1975
PIERCED ROUND FORM
numbered 6/10 on the underside; also numbered 6/10 on the Artist's wooden base
polished bronze
height (including base): 22.5cm.; 8¾in.; height (excluding base): 14.5cm.; 5¾in.
width: 14cm.; 5½in.
Conceived in 1959 and cast in bronze by the St Just Foundry in 1959-60, the present work is number 6 from the edition of 10.
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Gimpel Fils, London, where acquired by the father of the present owner, 14th November 1960, and thence by family descent
J.P. Hodin, Barbara Hepworth, Lund Humphries, London, 1959, cat. no.272.
Other casts from the edition are in the collection of The British Council and The Arts Club of Chicago.
We are grateful to Dr Sophie Bowness for her kind assistance with the cataloguing apparatus for the present work, which will feature in her forthcoming revised catalogue raisonné of the Artist's sculpture as cat. no.BH272.