LOT DETAILS

Materials:

bronze with a green/brown patina

Measurements:

102.36 in. (260.00 cm.) (height)

Edition:

6 of 7

Markings:

signed, numbered and dated 'Barbara Hepworth 1960/6/7' and stamped with the foundry mark ‘MORRIS/SINGER/FOUNDERS/LONDON' (on the base)

Exhibited:

London, Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth, May – June 1961, no. 18, another cast exhibited.Amsterdam, Keukenhof and Breda, Netherlands Art Foundation, summer 1962, another cast exhibited.London, Whitechapel Gallery, Barbara Hepworth: An Exhibition of Sculpture from 1952-1962, May – June 1962, no. 60, another cast exhibited.Otterlo, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, British Council touring exhibition, Barbara Hepworth, May – July, 1965, no. 26, another cast exhibited.New York, Malborough-Gerson Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, April – May 1966, no. 3, another cast exhibited.London, Tate Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, April – May 1968, no. 108, another cast exhibited.London, St Paul’s Churchyard, Sculpture Exhibition: City of London Festival, June 1968, no. 18, another cast exhibited.Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Inaugural Exhibition, October 1974 – September 1975, no. 630, another cast exhibited.Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Barbara Hepworth from the Museum Collection, April – July 1981, not numbered, another cast exhibited.Stavanger, Kunstforening, 1968-2014.

Literature:

Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth: An Exhibition of Sculpture from 1952-1962, London, Whitechapel Gallery, 1962, no. 60, another cast illustrated.G.S. Whittet, ‘You Can’t Write Off the British’, Studio, vol. 164, no. 832, August 1962, p. 72, another cast illustrated.Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth, Otterlo, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, British Council touring exhibition, 1965, no. 26, another cast illustrated.R.W.D. Oxenaar, ‘Barbara Hepworth: Mens, beeld en landschap’, Museumjournal voor Moderne Kunst, vol. 10, no. 6, June 1965, p.162, another cast illustrated.Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth, New York, Malborough-Gerson Gallery, 1966, no. 3, another cast illustrated.Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth, London, Tate Gallery, 1968, no. 108, p. 35, another cast illustrated.Barbara Hepworth: A Pictorial Autobiography, 1970, p. 110, another cast illustrated.A. Bowness, The complete sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960-69, London, 1971, p. 30, no. 287, pls. 28 and 29, another cast illustrated.H.C. Merillat, Modern Sculpture : The New Old Masters, 1974, pp. 113, 142-143, pl. 2, another cast illustrated on the cover.Exhibition catalogue, Inaugural Exhibition, Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, 1974, no. 630, another cast illustrated.M.A. Robinette, Outdoor Sculpture: Object and Environment, 1976, p. 62, another cast illustrated.N. Cusick, ‘Three in Washington D.C.’ Women Artists News, vol. 7, no. 3, Autumn 1981, p. 9, another cast illustrated.D. Fraser Jenkins, Barbara Hepworth: A Guide to the Tate Gallery Collection at London and St Ives, Cornwall, 1982, p. 33, another cast illustrated.Tate Gallery Acquisitions, Tate Gallery Acquisitions 1980-2, 1984, p. 117, another cast illustrated.W.J. Strachan, Open Air Sculpture in Britain: A Comprehensive Guide, 1984, pp. 98-99, no. 191, another cast illustrated.P. Davies and T. Knipe (eds.), A Sense of Space: Sculpture in Landscape, 1984, p. 27, another cast illustrated.M. Williams, People and Places in Cornwall, 1985, p. 59, another cast illustrated.A.M. Hammacher, Barbara Hepworth, London, 1987, pp. 132-133, 156, pls. 108 and 134, another cast illustrated.P. Fuller, ‘The Visual Arts’ in Boris Ford (ed.), Cambridge Guide to the Arts in Britain, vol. 9: Since the Second World War, 1988, p. 101, another cast illustrated.M. Tooby, An Illustrated Companion to the Tate St Ives, 1993, p. 13, another cast illustrated.P. Curtis, St Ives Artists: Barbara Hepworth, 1998, p. 47.M. Gale and C. Stephens, Barbara Hepworth: Works in the Tate Gallery Collection and the Barbara Hepworth Museum St Ives, London, 1999, pp. 200-202, no. 52, another cast illustrated.M. Phillips and C. Stephens, Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden, London, 2002, p. 43.S. Bowness, Barbara Hepworth: The Plasters The Gift to Wakefield, Surrey, 2011, p. 116, another cast illustrated.

Provenance:

Acquired from the artist direct in 1968.