Dame Barbara Hepworth

Four Figures Waiting

Artist's Resale RightUK: Greenford Park WarehouseVAT standard rate

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June 30, 10:59 AM GMT

Estimate

350,000 - 450,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Dame Barbara Hepworth

1903 - 1975

Four Figures Waiting

signed Barbara Hepworth, dated 1968, numbered 8/9 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 8 from the edition of 9 + 0.

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.

Marlborough Fine Art, London, where acquired by the grandmother of the present owner, June 1984, and thence by descent

Michael Shepherd, 'Gleaming from the Past', 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, Cornwall, 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)