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The Collector's Eye: Works from The Collection of Frances Wells Magee

Barbara Hepworth

Poised Form with Circle

Auction Closed

May 17, 10:38 PM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Collector's Eye: Works from The Collection of Frances Wells Magee

Barbara Hepworth

1903 - 1975


Poised Form with Circle

slate on wood base

height (including base): 17 in.

43.1 cm.

Executed in 1965. This work is unique.


This work will be included in the revised catalogue raisonné of Barbara Hepworth's sculpture being prepared by Dr. Sophie Bowness under the catalogue no. BH 380.

Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York
Private Collection (acquired from the above)
Acquired by 1972 by the present owner
Alan Bowness, The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth, 1960-69, London 1971, no. 380, p. 39, illustrated
Tate Museum Archive, Barbara Hepworth: Volume of Sculpture Records, no. BH380, illustrated, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/archive/items/tga-7247-35/hepworth-volume-of-sculpture-records/15 (accessed on 29 March 2023)
New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, 1966, no. 23, n.p., illustrated
Yonkers, Hudson River Museum, Twentieth Century Sculpture from Westchester Collectors, 1972