Miniature Divided Circle

Details

Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)
Miniature Divided Circle
signed, dated and numbered 'Barbara Hepworth 1971 2/9' (on the side of the base) and stamped with the foundry mark 'Morris Singer' (on the side of the base)
bronze with a polished and green patina
8¾ in. (22.3 cm.) high
This work is recorded in the Hepworth Estate as BH 524.

Provenance

A gift from the artist to her friend Nancie Halliday, November 1973.
with Marlborough Gallery, London, where purchased by the present owner.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

Discussing this sculpture, Sophie Bowness comments, 'Miniature Divided Circle relates back to the major bronze Two Forms (Divided Circle) of 1969 (BH 477) while being an independent work in itself. Hepworth believed that size made an 'absolute difference in treatment and colour', maquettes being for the hands and large ones were to be walked around. The large-scale Divided Circle reverses the relationship of polished and patinated bronze, with the internal surfaces polished and the outer forms patinated green' (S. Bowness (ed.), Barbara Hepworth The Plasters The Gift to Wakefield, Farnham, 2011, p. 168).

We are very grateful to Dr Sophie Bowness for her assistance in preparing this catalogue entry.

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