Dame Barbara Hepworth
Curved Form (Bryher)
Auction Closed
June 6, 05:43 PM GMT
Estimate
500,000 - 800,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Dame Barbara Hepworth
1903 - 1975
Curved Form (Bryher)
bronze
height (excluding the base): 57cm.; 22½in.; width (excluding the base): 27cm; 10½in.; depth (excluding the base): 11cm.; 4¼in.
height (including the base): 61cm.; 24in.; width (including the base): 36cm; 14¼in.; depth (including the base): 28.5cm.; 11¼in.
Conceived and cast in 1961, the present work is number 8 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 299.
Gimpel Fils, London, acquired from the Artist, 1961
Gallery Kasahara, Osaka, acquired from the above
Art Museum of Hyogo, Kobe, acquired from the above circa 1978
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
New Art Centre, London, where acquired by the previous owner, May 1990
Their sale, Christie's New York, 15 May 2015, lot 1330, where acquired by the present owner
London, Gimpel Fils Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, May 1961, no. 25 (another cast)
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Barbara Hepworth: an Exhibition of Sculpture from 1952-1962, May - June 1962, no. 57 (another cast)
London, Gimpel Fils Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, 1903-1975: 50 Sculptures from 1935 to 1970, October - November 1975, no. 31 (another cast)
New York, Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Gallery, Hepworth, March - April 1977, no. 6 (another cast)
Osaka, Gallery Kasahara, Barbara Hepworth, 1978, no. 5, p. 24, illustrated p. 9 (another cast)
Alan Bowness (ed.), The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960-69, Lund Humphries, London, 1971, p. 31, illustrated no. 299 (another cast)
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