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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 2022 | Makutu | 4 | Sotheby's | London | |||
| Nov 3, 2014 | MAKUTU | 1 | Sotheby's | New York | |||
sculpture
191.8 x 75.6 cm (75.5 x 29.75 in)
bronze
signed Barbara Hepworth , dated 1969 CAST 1970 , numbered 4/9 and stamped with foundry mark Morris Singer FOUNDERS LONDON (on the base)
Acquired by The Morris Singer Sculpture Association Ltd in April 1971
Sale, Sotheby's, London, 2 July 1980, lot 185, where acquired by the Alwin Gallery, London
Marlborough Fine Art, London, where acquired by the grandmother of the present owner in 1985, and thence by descent
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Barbara Hepworth: Recent Work Sculpture, Painting, Prints , February - March 1970, no. 39, illustrated in catalogue p. 40 (lignum vitae carving)
St Ives, Penwith Gallery, Autumn Exhibition 1970 , September - October 1970, with extensive Arts Council Tour (another cast)
Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture and Lithographs , September - October 1970, with Arts Council of Great Britain tour to Ede Gallery, Cambridge; Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne; and Southampton Art Gallery, Southampton (another cast)
New York, Gimpel Gallery, Barbara Hepworth , March - April 1971 (another cast)
London, Austin Reed Gallery, St Ives Group: 3rd Exhibition , August 1971 (another cast)
Galashiels, Scottish College of Textiles, Barbara Hepworth: A Selection of Small Bronzes and Prints , April - May 1978, with Scottish Arts Council tour to Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, Inverness; Dundee Museum and Art Gallery, Dundee; Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie; Hawick Museum and Art Gallery, Hawick; and Maclaurin Art Gallery, Ayr (another cast)
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Barbara Hepworth , July - October 1980, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue p. 28 (another cast)
Swansea, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery and Museum, Barbara Hepworth: A Sculptor's Landscape 1934-79 , October - November 1982, with tour to Bangor Art Gallery, Bangor; Wrexham Library Art Centre, Wrexham; and Manx Museum, Isle of Man (another cast)
Alan Bowness (ed.), The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960-69 , 1971, Praeger Publishers, New York, no. 499, illustrated p. 50 (another cast)
Walter John Strachan, Open Air Sculpture in Britain: A Comprehensive Guide , Tate Gallery, London, 1984, no. 141, p. 78, illustrated p. 79 (another cast)
David Fraser Jenkins, Barbara Hepworth: A Guide to the Tate Gallery Collection at London and St Ives, Cornwall , Tate Publishing Ltd, London, 1982, p. 40 (another cast)
Matthew Gale and Chris Stephens (eds.), Barbara Hepworth: Works in the Tate Gallery Collection and the Barbara Hepworth Museum St Ives , Tate Gallery Publishing, London, 1999, no. 71, illustrated p. 259 (another cast)
Property from an Important American Collection
Dame Barbara Hepworth
1903 - 1975
Makutu
signed Barbara Hepworth , dated 1969 CAST 1970 , numbered 4/9 and stamped with foundry mark Morris Singer FOUNDERS LONDON (on the base)
bronze
height (including base): 75.5cm.; 29¾in.
Conceived in 1969 and cast in 1970, the present work is number 4 from the edition of 9 + 0.
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 505.
