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Property from an Important Private European Collection

DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH | RECLINING SOLITARY FORM (AMULET)

Auction Closed

November 20, 12:36 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH

1903-1975

RECLINING SOLITARY FORM (AMULET)


numbered on the underside

polished bronze

height (excluding base): 7cm.; 2¾in.; width: 9cm.; 3½in.

Conceived in 1961, the present work is number 0 (an Artist's Cast) from the edition of 10 plus 0.

The Estate of the Artist and thence by descent, 2002

New Art Centre, Salisbury, where acquired by Private Collection, Switzerland, 2005

New Art Centre, Salisbury, where acquired by the present owners in 2010

Alan Bowness (ed.), The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960-69, Praeger Publishers, New York and Washington, 1971, cat. no.307, illustrated pl.48 (another cast);

Matthew Gale and Chris Stephens, Barbara Hepworth, Works in the Tate Gallery Collection and the Barbara Hepworth Museum St Ives, Tate Gallery Publishing, London, 1999, p.226.

London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, 1962, cat. no.66 (another cast);

London, Tate, Barbara Hepworth, 3rd April - 19th May 1968, cat. no.117 (another cast);

Wakefield, Wakefield Art Gallery, Barbara Hepworth: Polished Bronzes, May - June 2003, with tour to Museum het Catharina Gasthuis, Gouda (this cast).

We are grateful to Dr Sophie Bowness for her kind assistance with the cataloguing apparatus for the present work.