Lot Essay
A smaller work titled Marble Form (Mycenae) (1959) is in the collection of the Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller. (See B. Hepworth, Drawings from a Sculptor's Landscape, London, 1966, pl.52).
Mycenae (Stone Form)
Details
Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)
Mycenae (Stone Form)
signed and dated 'Barbara Hepworth/1960' (lower right)
oil and pencil on gesso-prepared board
25½ x 19¾ in. (64.8 x 50.2 cm.)
Mycenae (Stone Form)
signed and dated 'Barbara Hepworth/1960' (lower right)
oil and pencil on gesso-prepared board
25½ x 19¾ in. (64.8 x 50.2 cm.)
Provenance
Mischa Black. (See catalogue note for lot 6).
Exhibited
London, Gimpel Fils Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, May-June 1961, no.29.
Sale room notice
Please note that this work was also exhibited at Zurich, Charles Lienhard, Barbara Hepworth, 1960, no.36.