Modern & Post-War British Art

DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH

RECLINING SOLITARY FORM (AMULET)

Artist's Resale Right

Lot Closed

November 17, 03:44 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH

1903 - 1975

RECLINING SOLITARY FORM (AMULET)

numbered 8 10 (on the underside); also numbered 8 10 (on the Artist's base)

polished bronze

height (excluding base): 7cm.; 2¾in.

width: 9cm.; 3½in.

Conceived in 1961, the present work is number 8 from the edition of 10 plus 1 Artist's Cast.

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. BH307.

Gimpel Fils, London

Waddington Gallery, London where acquired by Mrs H. Seligman

Private Collection, UK, where acquired by the present owner

Alan Bowness (ed.), The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960-69, Praeger Publishers, New York and Washington, 1971, 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