Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)

Night Sky (Porthmeor)

細節

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.)

來源

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

出版

Barbara Hepworth: Drawings from a Sculptor's Landscape, London, 1966, pl. 66.
A.M. Hammacher, Barbara Hepworth, London, 1968, pl. 144.

展覽

London, Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth Sculpture and Drawings, June 1964 (drawings for sculpture numbered 44-60).
London, Tate Gallery, Barbara Hepworth Retrospective, April-May 1968, no. 217.
Penzance, Newlyn Art Gallery, Looking West, 1987, no. 43 (illustrated).

拍品專文

'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.