Lot 198
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Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)
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Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)

Two forms (Ciel)

Details
Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)
Two forms (Ciel)
numbered '10/10' (on the underside)
polished bronze
3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm.) wide
Conceived in 1959.
Provenance
Purchased at the 1961 exhibition, and by whom gifted to the previous owner.
Gifted from the above to the present owner circa 1980.
Literature
J.P. Hodin, Barbara Hepworth, London, 1959, p. 170, no. 266.
P. Curtis, Barbara Hepworth, London, 2013, p. 51.
Exhibited
Zurich, Galerie Charles Lienhard, Barbara Hepworth, October 1960, no. 14, another cast exhibited.
London, Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth, May - June, 1961, no. 7.
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Barbara Hepworth: An Exhibition of Sculpture from 1952-62, May - June 1962, no. 41, another cast exhibited.
London, Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth, October - November 1972, no. 12, another cast exhibited.
Wakefield, Wakefield Art Gallery and Museum, Barbara Hepworth: Polished Bronzes, May - June 2003, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to Gouda, Museum het Catharina Gasthuis, July - September 2003.
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


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.

‘All my sculpture comes out of a landscape - the feel of the earth as one walks over it, the resistance, the weathering, the outcrops, the growth structures - no sculpture really lives until it goes back to the landscape, the trees, air and clouds … Sculpture will never be a real part of our lives until this natural unity occurs again.’
Barbara Hepworth

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