LOT DETAILS

Materials:

bronze with dark brown and green patina and polished bronze

Size Notes:

Height: 94.125 in. (238.8 cm.) Conceived in 1970 and cast in 1971.

Description:

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Exhibited:

London, Kenwood House (on extended loan), 1973-1976. New York, Marlborough Gallery, Inc., Barbara Hepworth: Carvings and Bronzes, May-June 1979, no. 41 (illustrated). London, Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., The Marlborough Gallery Re-Opening Exhibition, April-May 1991, p. 24 (illustrated in color, p. 25). New York, Marlborough Gallery, Inc., Modern Sculpture, September-November 1992, no. 23 (illustrated in color). New York, Wildenstein & Co., Inc., Barbara Hepworth: Sculptures from the Estate, October-November 1996, p. 72, no. 25 (illustrated in color, p. 73).

Literature:

C. Nemser, Art Talk: Conversations with 12 Women Artists, New York, 1975, pp. 20, 23 and 32-33 (The Family of Man group illustrated). A. Bowness, Barbara Hepworth, A Pictorial Autobiography, London, 1985, p. 131, no. 349 (The Family of Man group illustrated). A.M. Hammacher, Barbara Hepworth, London, 1987, p. 198, no. 178 (another cast illustrated). S. Festing, Barbara Hepworth: A Life of Forms, London, 1995, pp. 288-299 (The Family of Man group discussed). P. Curtis, Barbara Hepworth, Hong Kong, 1998, pp. 70-73 (The Family of Man group illustrated). C. Stephens, ed., Barbara Hepworth: Centenary, exh. cat., Tate St. Ives, 2003, pp. 28, 36 and 134-135 (another cast illustrated in color, p. 137; another cast illustrated, p. 134). S. Bowness, ed., Barbara Hepworth, The Plasters, The Gift to Wakefield, Farnham, 2011, pp. 43-45, 59 and 63 (armature illustrated, p. 45, pl. 37). P. Curtis, Barbara Hepworth, British Artists, London, 2013, p. 59 (The Family of Man group illustrated, fig. 66). S. Bowness, ed., Barbara Hepworth, Writings and Conversations, London, 2015, pp. 226, 243, 246-250, 257, 264, 283, 287 and 294 (The Family of Man group discussed). S. Bowness, Barbara Hepworth: The Sculptor in the Studio, London, 2017, pp. 66, 70, 109, 118, 143 (plaster illustrated, p. 67, fig. 70).

Provenance:

Estate of the artist. PaceWildenstein, New York (acquired from the above, 17 June 1996). Acquired from the above by the present owner on 10 March 1999.