Modern & Post-War British Art
Modern & Post-War British Art
A Sense of Form: Property from a Private British Collection
DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH
FOUR HEMISPHERES
Lot Closed
November 17, 02:42 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
Lot Details
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A Sense of Form: Property from a Private British Collection
DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH
1903 - 1975
FOUR HEMISPHERES
signed Barbara Hepworth and numbered 6/10 (on one base)
lead crystal
height (each element): 16cm.; 6¼in.
base (largest element): 18.5 by 12.5 by 2.5cm.; 7¼ by 4¾ by 1in.
Conceived in 1970, the present work is number 6 from the edition of 10.
(4)
We are grateful to Dr Sophie Bowness for her kind assistance with the cataloguing apparatus for the present work, which will feature in her forthcoming revised catalogue raisonné of the Artist's sculpture as no. BH517.
Commissioned from the Artist by Carborundum Company, Niagara Falls, New York
Gifted from the above to Kenneth J. Galm, Indianapolis in 1974
Gifted from the above to Montrose Davis McClenny & Charlotte Galm McClenny, Indianapolis, from whom acquired by the family of the previous owner
Their sale, Sotheby's, London, 18 November 2014, lot 142, where acquired by the present owner
Carborundum Company (ed.), The Abrasive Marketing Report, New York, 1974, illustrated on the cover
Barbara Hepworth: Conversations (exh. cat.), New York, Marlborough Gallery, 1974, p. 51 (another cast)
Barbara Hepworth: Carvings and Bronzes (exh. cat.), New York, Marlborough Gallery, 1979, p. 66 (another cast)
Barbara Hepworth: Carvings (exh. cat.), London, Marlborough Fine Art, p. 38 (another cast)
Zurich, Marlborough Galerie AG, Barbara Hepworth, 13 August - 31 October 1975, illustrated in the catalogue p. 37 (another cast)