Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)
Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)

Figure (Oread)

Details
Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)
Figure (Oread)
bronze with green and golden brown patina
Height (with base): 28 3/8 in. (72 cm.) Height (without base): 27 in. (68.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1958; this bronze version cast by 1959
Provenance
Galerie Chalette, New York.
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner, 1959.
Literature
J.P. Hodin, Barbara Hepworth, Neuchâtel, 1961, p. 170, no. 237 (another cast illustrated, p. 128).
Exhibited
Leeds, Leeds Music Fesitval, 1958.
Kassel, Documenta II, summer 1959.
São Paulo, International Biennale of Art, September-December 1959. New York, Galerie Chalette, October-November 1959.
Sale room notice
Sophie Bowness will include this work in the revised Hepworth catalogue raisonné as BH 237, cast 3.
Please note that this lot is being offered from the Collection of Harold M. Landau, Paris.

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