Trophy (Flight)

Details

Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)
Trophy (Flight)
polished bronze
17 in. (43.2 cm.) high excluding wooden base
Conceived and cast in 1965 in an edition of three

Provenance

Sir Hugh Casson, R.A., and by descent.

Literature

A. Bowness (Ed.), The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960-69, London, 1971, no. 399, pl. 139 (another cast illustrated).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Hepworth explained her use of bronze as a medium for sculpture during the late 1950s and early 1960s: 'The reason Henry Moore and I do good bronzes is because we are good carvers. But I can say that all our original carvings, have, in 45 years been biffed, banged, bruised, broken and boiled so that they are cracked. No wonder the young take to polystyrene. I only learned to love bronze when I found that it was gentle and I could file it and carve it and chisel it. Each one is a 'person' to me - as much as a marble' (see P. Curtis and A.G. Wilkinson, Barbara Hepworth A Retrospective, catalogue for the exhibition at the Tate Gallery, Liverpool, 1994, p. 142).

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