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Property from The Latner Family Art Collection

Barbara Hepworth

Group II (People Waiting)

Estimate

2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD

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Property from The Latner Family Art Collection

Barbara Hepworth

(1903 - 1975)


Group II (People Waiting)

Seravezza marble 

11 ⅜ by 19 ⅞ by 11 ⅜ in.

29 by 50.4 by 29 cm. 

Executed in 1952.


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 181.

Martha Jackson Gallery, New York (acquired directly from the artist in 1954)

Dunkelman Gallery, Toronto (acquired from the above in 1960)

Private Collection, Canada (acquired from the above in May 1968)

Thence by descent to the present owner

London, The Lefevre Gallery (Alex Reid & Lefevre, LTd.), New Sculpture and Drawings by Barbara Hepworth, 1952, no. 9 

St Ives, Penwith Gallery, Penwith Gallery Coronation Exhibition, 1953, no. 124

London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Barbara Hepworth Retrospective Exhibition, 1927-1954, 1954, no. 144 

New York, Martha Jackson Gallery, 3 British Artists: Hepworth, Scott, Bacon, 1954, no. 3, illustrated (with front right figure inverted)

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center (and traveling); organized by Martha Jackson Gallery, Barbara Hepworth: Carvings and Drawings, 1937-1954, 1955-56, no. 13, illustrated (with front right figure inverted)

Tate St Ives and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Barbara Hepworth Centenary, 2003, no. 64, p. 36; p. 98, illustrated

Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Barbara Hepworth, 2004, p. 165, illustrated in color (with front right figure inverted)

St Ives, The Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden (on extended loan in 2005-25)

Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Records, 1952, no. BH. 181, pls. 11-12, illustrated

Wilma Moy-Thomas, “The Art of Barbara Hepworth,” News Chronicle, London, 30 September 1952

Elizabeth Coxhead, “A Woman in London: And Two Others—Sculptor and Airline Founder,” Liverpool Daily Post, Liverpool, 2 October 1952, illustrated

Birmingham Post, 1 October 1952, illustrated

Margaret Sharp, “Barbara Hepworth,” Yorkshire Illustrated, vol. VI, no. 12, Manchester, December 1952, p. 22

Robert Melville, “Exhibitions,” The Architectural Review, vol. CXII, no. 672, London, December 1952, p. 412, illustrated

Penwith Society of Arts, “From a Sculptor’s Point of View,” PS4: Penwith Society Broadsheet, no. 4, St Ives, Summer 1953, p. 3, illustrated

“Penwith Art Tends More Than Ever to Moderns,” The Western Morning News, 23 May 1953, p. 5, illustrated

Hilton Kramer, “British Trio,” Arts Digest, vol. 29, no. 2, New York, 15 October 1954, p. 22

E.C.M., “Bacon, Hepworth, Scott,” Art News, vol. 53, no. 6, October 1954, p. 52

Alfred Frankenstein, “An English Sculptress Takes Up Where the Egyptians Left Off,” San Francisco Chronicle, 18 September 1955, p. 18, illustrated

Isabel Batcheller, “Barbara Hepworth, Sculptor,” Canadian Art, vol. XIII, no. 2, Winter 1956, p. 226, illustrated

Leslie Judd Portner, “The Long Search for a Symbol,” The Washington Post, 5 August 1956, p. 7, illustrated

S.P., “In Gallery Displays,” The New York Times, 30 December 1956, section, X, p. 15, illustrated (with front right figure inverted)

“Barbara Hepworth,” France-Amérique, 20 January 1957

“Reviews and Previews,” Art News, vol. 55, no. 9, January 1957, p. 21

George Laverne, “Barbara Hepworth,” Arts, vol. 31, no. 5, 19 February 1957, p. 54

A.M. Hammacher, Barbara Hepworth, London, 1958, pl. 11, illustrated

J.P. Hodin, Barbara Hepworth, Neuchâtel, 1961, no. 181, n.p., illustrated; p. 167, illustrated

Rudolf W.D. Oxenaar, “Barbara Hepworth–Mens, Beeld en Landschap,” Museumjournaal voor Moderne Kunst, vol. 10, no. 6, June 1965, p. 158

Barbara Hepworth and Alan Bowness, Barbara Hepworth: Drawings from a Sculptor’s Landscape, London, 1966, p. 21, illustrated

A.M. Hammacher, The Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth, New York, 1968, no. 80, p. 110, illustrated; p. 204

Noel Welch, “Barbara Hepworth: A Personal View,” The Cornish Review, no. 25, Penzance, Winter 1973-74, p. 30

David Fraser Jenkins, Barbara Hepworth: A Guide to the Tate Gallery Collection at London and St Ives, Cornwall, London, 1982, p. 15

Peter Davies, The St Ives Years: Essays on the Growth of an Artistic Phenomenon, Wimborne, 1984, p. 38

Peter Davies, St Ives Revisited: Innovators and Followers, Abertillery, 1994, p. 51

Penelope Curtis, Barbara Hepworth, London, 1998, p. 37 

Matthew Gale and Chris Stephens, Barbara Hepworth: Works in the Tate Gallery Collection and the Barbara Hepworth Museum St Ives, London, 1999, p. 125; p. 128, illustrated; p. 269

Anthony Wallersteiner, “Barbara Hepworth: St Ives and West Bretton,” The Burlington Magazine, vol. CXLV, no. 1206, September 2003, p. 667

Sophie Bowness, ed., Barbara Hepworth–The Plasters: The Gift to Wakefield, Farnham, 2011, pp. 174 and 180 

Nathaniel Hepburn, Barbara Hepworth: The Hospital Drawings, London, 2012, p. 46

Alan Wilkinson, The Drawings of Barbara Hepworth, Farnham, 2015, p. 44

Sophie Bowness, Barbara Hepworth: The Sculptor in the Studio, London, 2017, p. 96