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Artist |
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Barbara Hepworth |
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Title |
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Sculpture with colour, oval form, pale blue and red
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Medium |
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painted wood and string |
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Size |
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0 x 19.7 in. / 0 x 50 cm. |
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Year |
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1943 - |
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Description |
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Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)
Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red
painted wood and string
19_ in. (50 cm.) long, including base
This work is unique and was carved in 1943 |
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Edition |
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unique |
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Sale Of |
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Christie's London: Friday, June 6, 2008
[Lot 164]
20th Century British Art
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Estimate |
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*
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Sold For |
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*
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Provenance |
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Acquired directly from the artist by Helen Sutherland, London.
Acquired from the above by Nicolete Gray, London in 1966, and by descent.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 1 July 1998, lot 20, where purchased by the present owner
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Exhibition |
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London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Barbara Hepworth Retrospective 1927-1954, April 1954, no. 36.
London, Tate Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, April - May 1968, no. 39.
London, Hayward Gallery, The Helen Sutherland Collection: A Pioneer Collection of the 1930s, December 1970 - January 1971, no. 14: this exhibition travelled to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Laing Art Gallery, January - February 1971; Cambridge, Kettle's Yard, February - March 1971; Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, March - April 1971; and Kendal, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, May 1971.
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Barbara Hepworth Carvings, July - August 1982, no. 4.
London, Tate Gallery, St Ives 1939-64: Twenty Five Years of Painting and Sculpture, February - April 1985, no. 54, p. 66, illustrated.
Valencia, Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, Barbara Hepworth, September - November 2004, not numbered
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Literature |
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W. Gibson, Barbara Hepworth, London, 1946, pls. 48 and 49.
B. Hepworth and H. Read, Barbara Hepworth Carvings and Drawings, London, 1952, nos. 66b and 67, illustrated twice.
J.P. Hodin, Barbara Hepworth, London, 1961, no. 119, illustrated, incorrectly dated 1934.
Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth, London, Tate Gallery, 1968, pp. 16, 55, no. 39, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth Carvings, London, Marlborough Fine Art, 1982, p. 12, no. 4, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, St Ives 1939-64: Twenty Five Years of Painting and Sculpture, London, Tate Gallery, 1985, p. 66, illustrated.
A.M. Hammacher, Barbara Hepworth, London, 1987, pp. 90-91, no. 63, illustrated.
M. Gale and C. Stephens, Barbara Hepworth Works in the Tate Gallery Collection and Barbara Hepworth Museum St Ives, London, 1999, p. 76, fig. 34.
Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth Centenary, London, Tate Gallery, 2003, p. 30, fig. 29.
Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth, Valencia, Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, 2004, p. 157, illustrated and on front cover
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