Sculpture with Colour and Strings

Details

Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)
Sculpture with Colour and Strings
numbered '9/9' (on the base)
bronze with green and light brown patina and strings
6¾ in. (17.1 cm.) high excluding base

Provenance

with Gimpel-Hanover Galerie, Zurich, where purchased by Mr and Mrs Frank H. Porter in 1963.

Literature

H. Read, Barbara Hepworth Carvings and Drawings, London, 1952, pl. 60a, plaster illustrated.
A. Bowness and J. Hodin, Barbara Hepworth, Neuchatel, 1961, p. 165, no. 113, plaster illustrated.
A.M. Hammacher, Modern English Sculpture, London, 1967, p. 81, another cast illustrated.
A.M. Hammacher, The Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth, New York, 1968, p. 78, no. 55, plaster illustrated.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

Lot Essay

Conceived in plaster in 1939 and cast in bronze in 1961 in an edition of nine, plus 0/9, an artist's copy. The original plaster was subsequently destroyed by the artist when the bronze was cast. The present sculpture, cast 9/9 in the edition is one of the three artist's casts.

This work will be included as BH113B in the forthcoming revised catalogue raisonné, currently being prepared by of Dr Sophie Bowness.

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