Dame Barbara Hepworth
Hollow Oval
Auction Closed
June 6, 05:43 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Dame Barbara Hepworth
1902 - 1975
Hollow Oval
signed with initials B.H., numbered 3/9 and inscribed with the foundry mark MS (on the base)
bronze and string
width (excluding the base): 19cm.; 7½in.; depth (excluding the base) 8cm.; 3in.; height (excluding the base): 11.5cm.; 4½in.
width (including the base): 19cm.; depth (including the base): 10cm.; 4in.; height (including the base): 13cm.; 5in.
Conceived and cast in 1965 by Morris Singer Foundry, the present work is number 3 from the edition of 9 plus 1 Artist's Cast.
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 375.
Robert Spitzer, New York, acquired via Marlborough-Gerson, 1966
Sale, Sotheby's New York, 12 November 1987, lot 451, where acquired by Private Collection, California, and thence by descent to Private Collection, USA
Their Sale, Sotheby's New York, 6 May 2015, lot 105, where acquired by the present owner
London, Gimpel Fils, Collector's Choice XIII, 1965, no. 46, illustrated in the exh. cat. (another cast)
New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Barbara Hepworth: Exhibition of Sculpture, April - May 1966, no. 27
London, Tate Gallery, Barbara Hepworth Retrospective 1927-67, April - May 1968, no. 148, illustrated in the exh. cat. pp. 40-1 (another cast)
Alan Bowness, (ed.), The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth, 1960-69, Lund Humphries, London, 1971, no. 375, illustrated p. 39 (another cast)
Alan G. Wilkinson, Barbara Hepworth The Art Gallery of Ontario Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1991, no. 13, illustrated pp. 36 & 46 (another cast)
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