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Details
DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)
Torso
pyinkardo wood, on a slate base, unique
12 ¾ in. (32.4 cm.) high, excluding base
Carved in 1929
This work is recorded as BH 22.
Torso
pyinkardo wood, on a slate base, unique
12 ¾ in. (32.4 cm.) high, excluding base
Carved in 1929
This work is recorded as BH 22.
Provenance
Sir Leon Bagrit, London, by the 1950s, and by descent to Joshua Kahan, USA.
with Ivor Braka Ltd., London.
Acquired from the above by The Peter Simon Collection in 2000.
with Ivor Braka Ltd., London.
Acquired from the above by The Peter Simon Collection in 2000.
Literature
J.P. Hodin, Barbara Hepworth, London, 1961, p. 161, no. 22.
P. Curtis, 'Early Hepworth: New Images for Old', The Burlington Magazine, December 1995, p. 847.
E. Clayton, Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life, London, 2021, p. 42, illustrated.
P. Curtis, 'Early Hepworth: New Images for Old', The Burlington Magazine, December 1995, p. 847.
E. Clayton, Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life, London, 2021, p. 42, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, An Exhibition of Sculpture by Barbara Hepworth and John Skeaping, October - November 1930, no. 43.
Wakefield, The Hepworth Wakefield, Yorkshire: Moore, Hepworth and the Landscape, April - September 2016, exhibition not numbered.
Wakefield, The Hepworth Wakefield, Disobedient Bodies: J.W. Anderson Curates The Hepworth Wakefield, March - June 2017.
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.
Wakefield, The Hepworth Wakefield, Yorkshire: Moore, Hepworth and the Landscape, April - September 2016, exhibition not numbered.
Wakefield, The Hepworth Wakefield, Disobedient Bodies: J.W. Anderson Curates The Hepworth Wakefield, March - June 2017.
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 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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