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Property from a European Collection

Dame Barbara Hepworth

Four-Square (Four Circles)

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Dame Barbara Hepworth

1903 - 1975


Four-Square (Four Circles)

signed Barbara Hepworth, dated 1966, numbered 5/7 and stamped with foundry stamp (on the base)

bronze

height: 60 cm. 23½ in.

Conceived and cast by Morris Singer Founders, London in 1966, the present work is number 5 from the edition of 7, plus 1 artist's cast.


The present work is recorded in the Barbara Hepworth catalogue raisonné as BH 428.

Marlborough Fine Art, Zurich, where acquired by Professor Walter Hadorn, 1973

Thence by family descent to the present owner

London, Marlborough Fine Art, Barbara Hepworth Recent Work. Sculpture, Paintings, Prints, February - March 1970, no. 6, p. 7, illustrated in the exh. cat. p. 16

Japan, Hakone Open-Air Museum, Barbara Hepworth Exhibition, June - September 1970

Liverpool, Tate Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, A Retrospective, 14 September - 4 December 1994, no. 74, illustrated in the exh. cat. p. 107 (another cast), with tour to Yale Center for British Art, New Haven and Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

Alan Bowness (ed.), The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth, 1960-1969, London, 1971, p. 43, no. 428, illustrated (another cast)

Marlborough Fine Art, The Family of Man, Nine Bronzes and Recent Carvings, April 1972, London, illustrated p. 5 (another cast)

Walter Hadorn, Kunstmuseum Bern, Sammlung Hadorn, Eicher & Co, Bern, 1977, no. 98, illustrated