Lot Essay
We are very grateful to Dr. Sophie Bowness for her assistance in preparing the catalogue entries for lots 161-5.
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Crouching Figure
Details
Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)
Crouching Figure
signed and dated 'Barbara Hepworth 1948' (upper right)
Indian ink and chalk on paper
9¼ x 13¼ in. (23.5 x 33.6 cm.)
Crouching Figure
signed and dated 'Barbara Hepworth 1948' (upper right)
Indian ink and chalk on paper
9¼ x 13¼ in. (23.5 x 33.6 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 27 March 1991, lot 176, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
A. Bowness, Barbara Hepworth: Drawings from a Sculptor's Landscape, London, 1966, pl. 11 (incorrectly dated as 1949).
Exhibited
London, Alex Reid & Lefevre Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, 1950, no. 44.
Venice, British Council, XXV Biennale, 1950, no. 108.
Wakefield, Wakefield Art Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, 1951, no. 82; this exhibition travelled to York and Manchester.
London, Arts Council, Sculpture in the Home, 1953-4, no. 49.
Venice, British Council, XXV Biennale, 1950, no. 108.
Wakefield, Wakefield Art Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, 1951, no. 82; this exhibition travelled to York and Manchester.
London, Arts Council, Sculpture in the Home, 1953-4, no. 49.
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