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Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)

Convolute

Price realised GBP 506,500
Estimate
GBP 400,000 – GBP 600,000
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Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)

Convolute

Price realised GBP 506,500
Closed: 20 Jun 2016
Price realised GBP 506,500
Closed: 20 Jun 2016
Details
Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)
Convolute
Cumberland alabaster, unique
10 in. (25.4 cm.) long
Carved in 1944.
This work is recorded as BH 126, unique.
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by Margot Eates, M.B.E and E.H. Ramsden; Christie's, London, 30 May 1997, lot 56.
with Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, London, where purchased by the present owner, June 2003, as Cumberland alabaster.
Literature
H. Read, Barbara Hepworth, Carvings and Drawings, London, 1952, pl. 76b.
J.P. Hodin, Barbara Hepworth, Neuchâtel, 1961, p. 165, no. 126, as grey alabaster.
P. Curtis and A. Wilkinson, exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth A Retrospective, Liverpool, Tate, 1994, p. 87.
Exhibition catalogue, The Thirties, London, Annely Juda, 1998, n.p., no. 18, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth Stone Sculpture, New York, Pace Wildenstein, 2001, p. 42, no. 1, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Lefevre Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, Sculpture and Drawings, October 1946, no. 12.
Wakefield, City Art Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, Sculpture and Drawings, May - July 1951, no. 21: this exhibition travelled to York, City Art Gallery, July - August; and Manchester, City Art Gallery, September - October.
London, Annely Juda, The Thirties, July - September 1998, no. 18.
New York, Pace Wildenstein, Barbara Hepworth Stone Sculpture, February - March 2001, no. 1.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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