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Details
DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)
Small Oval
alabaster, on a slate base, unique
8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm.) long, excluding base
Carved in 1963.
This work is recorded as BH 352.
Provenance
with Gimpel Fils, London.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 11 May 1989, lot 409.
with New Art Centre, Salisbury, where purchased by Joy Barnes in February 1996.
Her sale; Greenslade Taylor Hunt, Taunton, 20 Sepember 2012, lot 119.
with Richard Green, London, where purchased by the present owner in November 2013.
Literature
A. Bowness (ed.), The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960-69, London, 1971, p. 36, no. 352, pl. 89.
Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth 50 Sculptures from 1935 to 70, London, Gimpel Fils, 1975, n.p., no. 42, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth Sculpture and Drawings, June 1964, no. 38.
London, Tate Gallery, Barbara Hepworth Retrospective Exhibition, April - May 1968, no. 140.
London, Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth 50 Sculptures from 1935 to 70, October - November 1975, no. 42.
London, Gimpel Fils, Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth June - September 1990, no. 10.
London, Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth October - November 1994, ex. cat.
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