Lot 174
  • 174

Dame Barbara Hepworth

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
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Description

  • Barbara Hepworth
  • Idol
  • signed, dated 1956 CAST 1971 and numbered 1/9 on the base
  • polished bronze
  • height: 77.5cm.; 30½in.; width: 15cm.; 6in.; breadth: 15cm.; 6in.

Provenance

Private Collection, USA

Exhibited

Toronto, Marlborough Godard Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, May 1973, cat. no.10 (another cast, illustrated on the cover).

Condition

There are a few marks to the surface but the sculpture is in good overall condition. Please telephone the department on 020 7293 5381 if you have any questions regarding the present work
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Catalogue Note

The boxwood version of the sculpture, entitled Idol 1955-56 (BH 206, Barbara Hepworth Estate) was exhibited in Barbara Hepworth: A Retrospective at Tate Liverpool in 1994 (illustrated in the catalogue, p.117).