Property from an Important Australian Private Collection

Dame Barbara Hepworth

Vertical Forms

Auction Closed

June 24, 06:27 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000,000 - 3,000,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Australian Private Collection

Dame Barbara Hepworth

1903 - 1975


Vertical Forms

seravezza marble

height (not including base): 65 cm. 25½ in.

height (including base): 72.5 cm. 28½ in.

Executed in 1965.


This work will be included in the revised catalogue raisonné of Barbara Hepworth's sculpture being prepared by Dr. Sophie Bowness under the catalogue no. BH 398.

Acquired from the Artist by Laing Galleries, Toronto, 1966

Acquired from the above by Thomas G. Newman, New York, July 1969

Gimpel Fils, London, where acquired by the present owner, 1979

A.M. Hammacher, Barbara Hepworth, 1968, pl. 165, illustrated p. 186

Alan Bowness, The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960-69, Lund Humphries, London, no. 398, illustrated pl. 135

Bruce Beresford, Barbara Hepworth at the Tate, (film), 1968, British Film Institute for the Arts Council of Great Britain

London, Tate Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, 3 April - 19 May 1968, no. 159

London, Gimpel Fils, Summer Show, 1978, un-numbered

London, Waddington Galleries, Groups II, 9 January - 3 February 1979, un-numbered

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