Modern & Post-War British Art

DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH

SINGLE FORM (SUN AND MOON)

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November 17, 02:11 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 80,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH

1903 - 1975

SINGLE FORM (SUN AND MOON)

signed B H, numbered 0/3 and stamped with the foundry mark MS (on the reverse of the Artist's base)

polished bronze

height (excluding base): 13cm.; 5in.

base: 4cm.; 1½in.

Conceived in 1966 and cast by the Morris Singer foundry, the present work is the Artist's Cast from the edition of 3 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. BH431.

Laing Gallery, Toronto, where acquired by P Bower in 1968 and thence by family descent, from whom acquired by the present owner

Alan Bowness, The Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960-69, Praeger Publisher, New York and Washington, 1971, no. 431, illustrated p. 45 (another cast)

London, Tate, Barbara Hepworth, 3 April - 19 May 1968, no. 171, illustrated in the catalogue (another cast)