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Property from a Distinguished London Collection

Dame Barbara Hepworth

Forms in Echelon on an Orange Ground

Auction Closed

November 21, 05:49 PM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 100,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Dame Barbara Hepworth

1903 - 1975

Forms in Echelon (on an Orange Ground)


signed Barbara Hepworth and dated 1963 (lower right); signed Barbara Hepworth, titled and dated 1963 and inscribed (on the backboard)

oil and pencil on gesso-prepared board, laid on the Artist's backboard

unframed (central board): 35.5 by 45cm.; 14 by 17¾in.

framed: 49 by 59.5cm.; 19 by 23¼in.

Executed in 1963.


The present work is recorded as D 471 in the catalogue raisonné of Barbara Hepworth's paintings.

Gimpel Fils, London, where acquired by Mrs Hugh Seligman, June 1964

Sale, Christie's London, 9 June 2006, lot 165, where acquired by the Grosvenor Gallery, London

Sale, Sotheby's, London, 13 December 2007, lot 78, where acquired by the present owner

London, Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth, June 1964, no. 60

London, Tate, Barbara Hepworth, April - May 1968, no. 216, pl. 149

Alan Bowness, Barbara Hepworth: Drawings from a Sculptor's Landscape, London, 1966, illustrated pl. 67

Abraham Hammacher, Barbara Hepworth, 1968, illustrated pl. 149