Description
ON LOAN
Property from an Important Private Collection
Dame Barbara Hepworth
(1903 - 1975)
Single Form (Rosewood)
rosewood
height (not including base) 49.5cm.; 19½ in.
height (including base): 52cm.; 20½ in.
Carved in 1962-63.
This work will be included in the revised catalogue raisonné of
Barbara Hepworth's sculpture being prepard by Dr. Sophie Bowness under the catalogue no. BH 310.
Provenance
The Artist, from whom acquired by Gimpel Fils, London, February 1965
Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, New York, where purchased by the previous owner, October 1977
Their sale, Christie's London, 19 June 2018, lot 13, where acquired by the present owner
Exhibited
Zurich, Gimpel-Hanover Galerie, Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture and Drawings, November 1963 - January 1964, no. 9, illustrated in the exh. cat.
London, Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture and Drawings, June 1964, no. 9, illustrated in the exh. cat.
London, Tate Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, April - May 1968, no. 120
London, Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth: 50 sculptures from 1935 to 1970, October - November 1975, no. 38, illustrated in the exh. cat.
New Y ork, Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, Hepworth, March - April 1977 , no. 8, illustrated in the exh. cat.
Literature
Alan Bowness, The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960-69, London, 1971, pp. 32-33, no. 310, illustrated
"Very often as the thought becomes more free the line is purified, and as principles – the laws which contain lesser laws – are comprehended, the forms become simplified and strengthened. In the physical world we can discover in the endless variations of the same form, the one particular form which demonstrates the power and robustness of the simplified structure…it is not the accidental or the casual but the regular irregularity, the perfect sequence which gives the maximum expression of individual life."