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Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)
Lot 107

Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)

Night Sky (Porthmeor)

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Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)
Night Sky (Porthmeor)
signed and dated 'Barbara Hepworth 1964' (lower right), signed again and inscribed
'Barbara Hepworth/Night Sky (Porthmeor) 1964/oil & pencil' (on the reverse)
oil and pencil on gesso-prepared board
27½ x 24 in. (70 x 61 cm.)

with Gimpel Fils Gallery, London, where purchased by Lady Patricia Ramsay in 1964.

Specialist note

'Barbara Hepworth purchased a small studio apartment overlooking Porthmeor Beach in St Ives in 1961, close to where the Tate Gallery St Ives now stands. She used it as a weekend retreat from Trewyn Studio, and made a number of paintings there'.
(Alan Bowness, private correspondence, April 2000).

We are very grateful to Sir Alan Bowness for his assistance in preparing this catalogue entry.