DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH

SMALL FORM (NOVEMBER)

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November 17, 02:06 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 GBP

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Property from an Important Private Collection, Chicago

DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH

1903 - 1975

SMALL FORM (NOVEMBER)

white alabaster

height (including base): 20cm.; 7¾in.; height (excluding base): 14cm.; 5½in.

width: 8cm.; 3in.

Carved in 1962, the present work is unique.

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. BH323.

Please note this lot is subject to an Irrevocable Bid.

Gifted by the Artist to Abbé Dominique de Grunne, June 1964

Marlborough Galleries, London, where acquired by the family of the present owner, probably, in the early 1970s, and thence by descent

Alan Bowness, The Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960-69, Lund Humphries, London, 1971, no. 323, illustrated p. 35

London, Tate, Barbara Hepworth, 3 April - 19 May 1968, no. 127, p. 59