Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's… 顯示更多 PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF DEREK FAIRHEADDerek Fairhead had a long career working for Westward Television from the 1950s to the 1980s. During that time he produced and directed a series of programs covering the music and the arts, including the 1967 documentary about Bernard Leach and Barbara Hepworth. He and Hepworth developed a mutual respect which is illustrated in their exchange of personal letters. He went on to purchase Sculpture with Colour directly from Hepworth, and it has remained in the family since.
Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)

Sculpture with Colour

細節
Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)
Sculpture with Colour
signed with initials, numbered and dated 'BH 8/9/1940' (lower right edge of the base) and inscribed with the Morris Singer studio stamp and dated again 'M/S 1968' (lower left edge of the base)
polished and painted bronze, with strings, on a bronze base
6 in. (15.2 cm.) wide, including base
Conceived in 1940 and cast in 1968.
This work is recorded as BH 459.
To be sold with two letters from Barbara Hepworth to Derek Fairhead, dated February 1969 and October 1973.
來源
Acquired directly from the artist by Derek Fairhead, 1969, and by descent.
出版
A. Bowness, The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960-69, London, 1971, p. 46, no. 459, incorrectly recorded as the first cast of BH 117 A.
Exhibition catalogue, The Non-Objective World 1914-1955, London, Annely Juda Fine Art, 1973, p. 89, no. 53, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth, 1903-1975: 50 sculptures from 1935 to 1970, London, Gimpel Fils, 1975, n.p., no. 6, another cast illustrated.
S. Bowness (ed.), Barbara Hepworth The Plasters: The Gift to Wakefield, Farnham, 2011, pp. 36, 47, 104, no. 2, plaster cast and another cast illustrated.

展覽
London, Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth, October 1972, no. 2, another cast exhibited.
London, Annely Juda Fine Art, The Non-Objective World 1914-1955, July - September 1973, no. 53, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to Texas, Austin, University Art Museum, October - December 1973.
London, Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth, 1903-1975: 50 sculptures from 1935 to 1970, October - November 1975, no. 6, another cast exhibited.
New York, Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, Hepworth, March - April 1977, no. 14, another cast exhibited.
Wakefield, City Art Gallery, BH: Polished Bronzes, May - June 2003, exhibition not numbered: this exhibition travelled to The Netherlands, Gouda, Museum Het Catharina Gasthuis, July - September 2003.
注意事項
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

拍品專文

We are grateful to Dr Sophie Bowness for her assistance with the cataloguing apparatus for this work. Dr Sophie Bowness is preparing the revised catalogue raisonné of Hepworth’s sculpture.

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