Modern British and Irish Art Evening Auction

Modern British and Irish Art Evening Auction

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Property from a Notable Private Collection

Dame Barbara Hepworth

Sea Form (Atlantic)

Auction Closed

June 6, 05:43 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000,000 - 5,000,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Notable Private Collection

Dame Barbara Hepworth

1902 – 1975

Sea Form (Atlantic)

 

signed Barbara Hepworth, numbered 5/6, dated 1964 and stamped with the foundry mark Morris Singer FOUNDERS LONDON (on the base)

bronze

height: 206cm.; 81in.

Conceived in 1964, the present work is number 5 from the edition of 6 plus one Artist's proof.


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 362.

Acquired by the family of the present owner in 1971 and thence by descent

Their sale, Sotheby's London, 21 July 2005, lot 110, where acquired by the present owner

Barbara Hepworth & Alan Bowness, Barbara Hepworth: Drawings from a Sculptor's Landscape, Cory, Adams & Mackay Ltd., London, 1966, illustrated p. 12 (another cast)

Barbara Hepworth, Barbara Hepworth: A Pictorial Autobiography, Adams & Dart, Bath, 1970, p. 103 & 109, pl. 286 & 301, illustrated (another cast)

Alan Bowness (ed.), The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960-69, Lund Humphries, London, 1971, no. 362, illustrated pl. 103-4 (another cast)

Penelope Curtis & Alan G. Wilkinson, Barbara Hepworth, A Retrospective, Tate Gallery, London, 1994, pp. 105-6, illustrated (another cast)

Penelope Curtis, St. Ives Artists: Barbara Hepworth, Tate Gallery, London, 1998, illustrated pl. 48 (another cast)

Matthew Gale & Chris Stephens, Barbara Hepworth: Works in the Tate Gallery Collection and the Barbara Hepworth Museum, St. Ives, Tate Gallery, London, 1999, p. 202

Sophie Bowness (ed.), Barbara Hepworth: Writings and Conversations, Tate Gallery, London, 2015, pp. 233-4

Sophie Bowness, Barbara Hepworth: The Sculptor in the Studio, Tate Gallery, London, 2017, pp. 124 & 128, fig. 123, illustrated 126-7 (another cast)

Otterlo, Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Barbara Hepworth Retrospective 1935-1965, 8 May - 18 July, no. 43, illustrated in exh. cat. (another cast)

St. Ives, Penwith Society of Arts Summer Exhibition, August - October 1965, no. 2 of sculpture section, illustrated in exh. cat. (another cast)

Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Barbara Hepworth, 1965, no. 41, illustrated in exh. cat. (another cast)

Basel, Kunsthalle, Barbara Hepworth, September 1965 - June 1966, no. 33, illustrated (another cast), with tour to Karlsruhe and Essen

New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, April - May 1966, no. 17, illustrated in exh. cat. (another cast)

London, Battersea Park, Sculpture in the Open Air, May - September 1966, no. 17, illustrated in exh. cat. (another cast)

London, Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth, 25 May - 20 June 1966, no. 4, illustrated (another cast)

Montreal, Expo '67, The Genius of Britain, Summer 1967 (another cast)

Birmingham, Cannon Hill Park, Outdoor Sculpture, April - June 1967, no. 1 (another cast), with tour to Norwich and Northampton

London, Tate Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, April - May 1968, no. 145 (the present cast)

Edinburgh, Royal Botanic Garden, Barbara Hepworth: Late Works, August - September 1976, no. 2, illustrated in exh. cat. (another cast)

New York, Marlborough Fine Art, Hepworth, Lipchitz, Moore, December 2000 - January 2001, no. 4, illustrated in exh. cat. p. 9 (another cast)

St. Ives, Tate & Wakefield, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Barbara Hepworth: Centenary, May - October 2003, no. 94, illustrated in exh. cat., p. 134 & 143 (the present cast shown at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park)