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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 2024 | Four Figures Waiting | 6 | Phillips | London | |||
sculpture
62.2 x 48.3 x 48.3 cm (24.49 x 19.02 x 19.02 in)
polished bronze
incised with the artist"s signature, number, date and foundry"s initials and name ‘Barbara Hepworth 6/9 1968 MS Morris Singer" on the overturn edge of the base
Gimpel Fils, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1971
New York, Gimpel Gallery, Barbara Hepworth , 8 April-3 May 1969, no. 10, n.p. (another example exhibited and illustrated)
St Ives, The Penwith Gallery, Spring Exhibition , 27 February-15 May 1969, no. 7 (another example exhibited)
Bath, Festival Gallery, St. Ives Group: 2nd Exhibition, 1969 Bath Festival , 14-28 June 1969, no. 2, n.p. (another example exhibited)
Uttoxeter, Abbotsholme; Oxford, Ashmolean Museum; Nottingham, Castle Museum; Ilkley, Manor House Museum and Art Gallery; Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art; Coventry, Belgrade Theatre; Shrewsbury, Art Gallery; Letchworth, Museum and Art Gallery; Kettering, Art Gallery; Cardiff, National Museum of Wales; Cambridge, Ede Gallery; Eastbourne, Towner Art Gallery; Southampton, City Art Gallery, Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture and Lithographs , 17 January 1970-17 January 1971, no. 14, n.p. (another example exhibited and illustrated)
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Barbara Hepworth: Recent Work, Sculpture, Paintings, Prints , 11 February-13 March 1970, no. 12, pp. 7, 20-21 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 21)
London, Gimpel Fils, Gallery Choice , 10 March-4 April 1970, no. 32, n.p.
Plymouth, City Art Gallery, Barbara Hepworth , 16 June-16 August 1970, no. 50, n.p. (another example exhibited and illustrated)
The Hakone Open-Air Museum; Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art, Barbara Hepworth Exhibition, 1970 , 1 June-22 November 1970, no. 27 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
New York, Gimpel Gallery, Barbara Hepworth , March-April 1971, no.7, n.p.
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Masters of the 19th and 20th Centuries , Summer 1972, no. 30, pp. 60-61 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 60); then travelled as Rome, Marlborough Galleria d"Arte, Maestri del XIX e XX secolo , November 1972-January 1973, no. 16, pp. 28-29 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 28)
Zurich, Marlborough Galerie, Barbara Hepworth , 13 August-31 October 1975, no. 6, pp. 11, 18-19 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 19)
High Wycombe, Burleighfield House - Burleighfield International Arts Centre, Sculptures by Barbara Hepworth , October 1977 (another example exhibited)
Galashiels, Scottish College of Textiles; Inverness, Museum and Art Gallery; Dundee, Museum and Art Gallery; Milngavie, Lillie Art Gallery; Hawick, Museum and Art Gallery; Ayr, Maclaurin Art Gallery, Barbara Hepworth: A Selection of small bronzes and prints , 17 April-16 December 1978, no. 21, n.p. (another example exhibited)
Bournemouth, Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, The Russell-Cotes Modern Artists Exhibition 1979 , 6 January-24 February 1979, n.p. (another example exhibited)
New York, Marlborough Gallery, Barbara Hepworth: Carvings and Bronze s, 5 May-29 June 1979, no. 30, pp. 12, 54-55 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 54)
Swansea, The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery & Museum; Bangor Art Gallery; Wrexham Library Art Centre; Isle of Man, The Manx Museum, Barbara Hepworth: A Sculptor"s Landscape 1934-1974 , 2 October 1982-26 February 1983, no. 21, n.p. (another example exhibited and illustrated)
East Winterslow, New Art Centre Sculpture Park & Gallery, Barbara Hepworth: Polished Bronzes , 6 December 2001-24 February 2002, n.p. (another example exhibited and illustrated)
Wakefield Art Gallery, Barbara Hepworth: Polished Bronzes , 17 May-29 June 2003; then travelled as Gouda, Museum het Catharina Gasthuis, Hepworth in Brons: Gepolijste bronzen van Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975) , 12 July-28 September 2003 (another example exhibited)
East Winterslow, New Art Centre Sculpture Park & Gallery, Barbara Hepworth: Work from 1958-1973 , 28 March-29 August 2020, n.p. (another example exhibited and illustrated)
Michael Shepherd, "Gleaming from the Past", The Sunday Telegraph , 15 February 1970, p. 17
Marina Vaizey, "Gallery Choice: Gimpel Fils", Arts Review , vol. XXII, no. 5, 14 March 1970, p. 158
‘Barbara Hepworth: The Artist and Her Work", Bijutsu Techo , vol. 22, no. 331, August 1970, p. 16 (another example illustrated)
Alan Bowness, ed., The complete sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960-69 , London, 1971, no. 461, pl. 12, pp. 46, 64, 221 (illustrated, p. 64)
Janet Axten, Gasworks to Gallery: The Story of Tate St Ives , St Ives, 1995, p. 30 (The Penwith Gallery, St. Ives, circa 1976 installation view, another example illustrated)
Sophie Bowness, ed., Barbara Hepworth, The Plasters: The Gift to Wakefield , Farnham, 2011, pl. 24, pp. 40, 206 (plaster illustrated, p. 40)
Dame Barbara Hepworth
Four Figures Waiting
incised with the artist"s signature, number, date and foundry"s initials and name ‘Barbara Hepworth 6/9 1968 MS Morris Singer" on the overturn edge of the base
polished bronze
62.2 x 48.3 x 48.3 cm (24 1/2 x 19 x 19 in.)
Executed in 1968, this work is number 6 from an edition of 10.
