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Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)

Mincarlo

Details

Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)
Mincarlo
numbered '1/9' (on the base)
polished bronze and string
13½ in. (34.3 cm.) high, including slate base
Conceived and cast in 1971 in St Ives.
This work is recorded as BH 526.

Provenance

Mrs Enid Bliss Morris [later Mrs Frame-Thomson], USA, May 1971.
Her sale; Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London, 10 November 1976, lot 152.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby’s, London, 1 December 1999, lot 63.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth: Carvings and Bronzes, Toronto, Marlborough Godard Gallery, 1973, p. 10, no. 8, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth 1903-1975, William Darby, n.p., no. 10, another cast illustrated.

Exhibited

St Ives, Penwith Gallery, Penwith Society of Arts Spring 1972 Exhibition, March - June 1972, no. 5, another cast exhibited.
Toronto, Marlborough Godard Gallery, Barbara Hepworth: Carvings and Bronzes, May 1973, no. 8, another cast exhibited.
London, William Darby, Barbara Hepworth 1903-1975, November 1975, no. 10, another cast exhibited.

Special notice

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Sale room notice

Please note that the provenance of this lot should read:
Mrs Enid Bliss Morris [later Mrs Frame-Thomson], USA, May 1971.
Her sale; Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London, 10 November 1976, lot 152, where purchased by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

We are grateful to Dr Sophie Bowness for her assistance with the cataloguing apparatus for this work. Dr Sophie Bowness is preparing the revised catalogue raisonné of Hepworth’s sculpture.

'I arranged in my studio, opposite my bed, a mirror which reflects the rising morning sun – for half an hour with incredible splendour this moving & focused source of light travels slowly over the nine sculptures in its path – Hollows & piercings, forms within forms, strings & features, volume & space are animated to a new vibration of life & every form & contour, known so intimately by my hands, reveals its proper significance'
(Barbara Hepworth letter to Herbert Read, January 1953 in Sophie Bowness, Barbara Hepworth: The Sculptor in the Studio, London, 2017, p. 28)

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