Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)
Two Figures, BH 460, 1968
Signed, dated and numbered on the base Barbara Hepworth 1968 5/7 and inscribed by the foundry Morris Singer Founders London
Bronze with variegated patina and cold paint
Figure One: 96 x 21 x 16 inches (without base), Figure Two: 91 x 24 ½ x 13 inches (without base)
Overall dimensions, including base: 8 feet 7 7/8 ix 38 x 59 inches
Conceived in 1968 and cast in an edition of 7 plus 1 artist’s proof
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Four-square (Four-circles),1966
Bronze
23.5 x 59.7 in
Conceived in 1966 and cast during the artist's lifetime as a part of a numbered edition of 7.
Inscribed Barbara Hepworth, dated 1966 and numbered 4/7; inscribed with the foundry mark Morris Singer Bronze
Provenance
Gimpel Weitzenhoffer, Ltd., New York
Acquired from the above in 1973
Sotheby's New York: Wednesday, November 3, 2010 [Lot 00305]
Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale
Literature
Alan Bowness, ed., The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960-69, London, 1971, no. 428, illustration of another cast p. 43
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Three Obliques (Walk In)
signed, numbered and dated 'Barbara Hepworth 0⁄2 1969' (at the base)
bronze with a green, brown and golden patina
113 3⁄4 x 183 1⁄2 x 130 in. (288.9 x 466.1 x 330 cm.)
Conceived in 1968 and cast in 1969 by Morris Singer Foundry, London, in an edition of 2, plus an artist's cast.
PROVENANCE:
with Gimpel Fils, London, where purchased by Saul Steinberg in June 1971.
A donation from the above to the Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New York. Acquired from the above by the present owner at the 2007 exhibiNon.
LITERATURE:
Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth: Recent Work, Sculpture, Paintings, Prints, London, Marlborough Fine Art, 1970, p. 26, no. 18, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Open Air Sculpture at Syon Park II, London, Gimpel Fils, 1970, n.p., no. 10, another cast illustrated.
A. Bowness (ed.), The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960-69, London, 1971, p. 47, no. 473, pl. 14. Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth, New York, Gimpel Gallery, 1971, no. 8, another cast illustrated on the cover. Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth: 50 Sculptures from 1935 to 1970, London, Gimpel Fils, 1975, n.p., no. 54, another cast illustrated.
W.J. Strachan, Open Air Sculpture in Britain: A Comprehensive Guide, London, 1984, p. 212, no. 488, another cast illustrated.
E. Rosenberg, Architect's Choice: Art in Architecture in Britain since 1945, London, 1992, pp. 94-95, another cast illustrated.
P. Curtis, Barbara Hepworth, London, 1998, pp. 42, 46, pl. 45.
C. Haberlik, U. Braun and I.D. Mazzoni, 50 Klassiker Kunstlerinnen: Malerinnen, Bildhauerinnen und Photographinnen, Gerstenberg, 2002, p. 26, another cast illustrated.
P. Curtis and C. Stephens (eds.), Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World, London, Tate Britain, 2015, p. 95, fig. 90, another cast illustrated.
EXHIBITED:
London, Gimpel Fils, Open Air Sculpture at Syon Park, Summer 1969.
London, Gimpel Fils, Open Air Sculpture at Syon Park II, Summer 1970, no. 10, another cast exhibited.
Hakone, Hakone Open-Air Museum, Barbara Hepworth Exhibition, June - September 1970, no. 30, another cast exhibited.
New York, Gimpel Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, May - April 1971, no. 8, another cast exhibited.
London, Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth, October - November 1972, no. 32, another cast exhibited.
London, Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth: 50 Sculptures from 1935 to 1970, October - November 1975, no. 54, another cast exhibited at Syon Park.
Bakewell, Chatsworth House, Beyond Limits, September - November 2007, exhibition not numbered, incorrectly listed as cast '1⁄2'.
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The Family of Man (Ultimate Form)
Signed & numbered, ‘Barbara Hepworth 1/4’
Stamped with foundry mark, ‘Morris/Singers/Founders/London
Bronze with a dark green and brown patina
118 1/4” (300 cm.) including bronze base
Conceived in 1970 and cast in an edition of 4, with 2 further full sets at the same time. This work is recorded BH513i
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The Family Of Man - Parent II (BH513), 1970
Bronze with brown and green patina
95 in
Edition 2 of 4
Signed, numbered and stamped with foundry mark "Barbara Hepworth 2/4 Morris Singer Fondeur London" on the back
Provenance:
The Artist
Marlborough Gallery, NY
Private Collection, NY
Exhibited:
Barbara Hepworth: The Family of Man – Nine Bronzes and Recent Carvings, Marlborough Fine Art, London, 1972, ill. p. 26 (another cast);
Barbara Hepworth: Late Works on Loan from the Trustees of the Barbara Hepworth Estate, Edinburgh, Royal Botanic Garden, August 21 - September 12 1976, illustrated (another cast)
Barbara Hepworth Carvings and Bronzes, Marlborough Gallery, New York, May 5 - June 29, 1979, ill. p.41, no.43 (another cast);
Penelope Curtis and Alan G. Wilkinson, Barbara Hepworth, A Retrospective, Tate Gallery Publications, London, 1994, ill. p.155 (complete set).
Barbara Hepworth: Sculptures from the Estate, Wildenstein, New York, October 8 - November 16, 1996, ill. p. 73 (another cast)
Literature:
Barbara Hepworth: the family of man-nine bronzes and recent carvings: April-May 1972, Marlborough Fine Art, London, 1972. ill. p. 26 (another cast);
Barbara Hepworth, A Pictorial Autobiography, Moonraker Press, Bradford-on-Avon, 1978, no.349, illustrated p.131 (complete set);
Barbara Hepworth: Carvings and Bronzes, Marlborough Gallery, New York, May 5 - June 29, 1979, ill. p.41, no.43 (another cast),
Abraham M. Hammacher, Barbara Hepworth, Thames & Hudson, London, 1987, no.178, illustrated pp.198-9 (complete set);
Penelope Curtis and Alan G. Wilkinson, Barbara Hepworth, A Retrospective, Tate Gallery Publications, London, 1994, illustrated p.155 (complete set);
Barbara Hepworth: Sculptures from the Estate, Wildenstein, New York, October 8 - November 16, 1996, ill. p. 73 (another cast);
Penelope Curtis, Barbara Hepworth, Tate Publishing, London, c.1998, illustrated p.48, fig.66 (another cast);
Barbara Hepworth, 1903-1975, New York, N.Y. Thames and Hudson, revised edition, 1998, illustrated p.198 (complete set);
Barbara Hepworth, Stone Sculpture: February 10-March 17, 2001 Pace Wildenstein, New York, 2001, illustrated p.10, fig. 7 (complete set);
Barbara Hepworth: Centenary, Tate, London 2003, illustrated p.134 and p.137, no.86 (complete set);
Barbara Hepworth and the Yorkshire Landscape: an anthology of her writings and recollections, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, 2003, illustrated p.16 (another cast);
Sophie Bowness, Barbara Hepworth, The Plasters, Lund Humphries, Farnham, 2011, illustrated pl.45 (aluminum framework for plaster version);
Penelope Curtis, Barbara Hepworth, Tate Publishing, London, 2012, illustrated pp.74-6 (complete set);
Barbara Hepworth: The Sculptor In The Studio, Bowness, Sophie, Tate Publishing, London, 2017, illustrated p.67, fig.70
Notes:
This work will be included in the forthcoming revised catalogue raisonné of the Artist's sculpture as catalogue number BH513.
The Family of Man, Bronze, 1970 (BH 513, bronze in nine parts, edition of 2 groups + 4 individual casts of each figure), complete groups at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (on loan from the Hepworth Estate); The Donald M. Kendall Sculpture Garden at PepsiCo, Purchase, New York.
Another individual cast of this sculpture is in the collection of the Hepworth Wakefield Museum.
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