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The Hands and the Arm
Details
DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)
The Hands and the Arm
signed and dated 'Barbara Hepworth/1948' (lower right), signed again, inscribed and dated again 'Barbara Hepworth/''The hands & arm''/1948' (on the reverse)
oil and pencil on board
12 x 15 in. (30.5 x 38 cm.)
Painted in 1948
This work is recorded as D 195
The Hands and the Arm
signed and dated 'Barbara Hepworth/1948' (lower right), signed again, inscribed and dated again 'Barbara Hepworth/''The hands & arm''/1948' (on the reverse)
oil and pencil on board
12 x 15 in. (30.5 x 38 cm.)
Painted in 1948
This work is recorded as D 195
Provenance
with Gimpel Fils, London.
Acquired from the above in 1958, and by descent.
Their sale; Christie's, London, 25 May 1994, lot 24, where purchased by Ivor Braka Ltd., London.
Acquired from the above by The Peter Simon Collection in 1996.
Acquired from the above in 1958, and by descent.
Their sale; Christie's, London, 25 May 1994, lot 24, where purchased by Ivor Braka Ltd., London.
Acquired from the above by The Peter Simon Collection in 1996.
Literature
A. Bowness (intro.), Barbara Hepworth: Drawings from a Sculptor's Landscape, London, 1966, n.p., pl. 27.
A.M. Hammacher, Barbara Hepworth, London, 1987, n.p., pl. 77.
N. Hepburn, exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth: The Hospital Drawings, Wakefield, The Hepworth Wakefield, 2012, pp. 100, 125, illustrated.
S. Bowness (ed.), Barbara Hepworth: Writings and Conversations, London, 2015, p. 90.
A.M. Hammacher, Barbara Hepworth, London, 1987, n.p., pl. 77.
N. Hepburn, exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth: The Hospital Drawings, Wakefield, The Hepworth Wakefield, 2012, pp. 100, 125, illustrated.
S. Bowness (ed.), Barbara Hepworth: Writings and Conversations, London, 2015, p. 90.
Exhibited
New York, Durlacher Bros., Barbara Hepworth: Drawings, October 1949, no. 5.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, on long term loan.
London, Crane Kalman Gallery, Ben Nicholson and Two Wives: Winifred Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth, March - May 1996, pp. 27, 34, no. 25, illustrated.
Wakefield, The Hepworth Wakefield, Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life, May 2021 - February 2022, exhibition not numbered: this exhibition travelled to Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, April - October 2022; and St Ives, Tate St Ives, November 2022 - May 2023.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, on long term loan.
London, Crane Kalman Gallery, Ben Nicholson and Two Wives: Winifred Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth, March - May 1996, pp. 27, 34, no. 25, illustrated.
Wakefield, The Hepworth Wakefield, Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life, May 2021 - February 2022, exhibition not numbered: this exhibition travelled to Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, April - October 2022; and St Ives, Tate St Ives, November 2022 - May 2023.
Further Details
We are very grateful to Dr Sophie Bowness and Jenna Lundin Aral for their assistance with the cataloguing apparatus for this work. Dr Sophie Bowness and Jenna Lundin Aral are preparing the revised catalogue raisonné of Hepworth’s paintings.
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