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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 22, 2016 | PARENT I | 2 | Sotheby's | London | |||
sculpture
268.6 cm (105.75 in)
bronze
signed, numbered 2/4 and inscribed with Morris Singer foundry mark
Hepworth Estate
Acquired by the present owner through Marlborough Fine Art, New York, November 1982
New York, Marlborough Fine Art, Barbara Hepworth: The Family of Man - Nine Bronzes and Recent Carvings, April - May 1972, cat. no.4, illustrated p.63 (another cast);
Edinburgh, Royal Botanic Garden, Barbara Hepworth: Late Works on Loan from the Trustees of the Barbara Hepworth Estate, 21st August - 12th September 1976, cat. no.11.D, illustrated pp.20 and 22 (another cast).
Barbara Hepworth, A Pictorial Autobiography, Moonraker Press, Bradford-on-Avon, 1978, no.349, illustrated p.131 (complete set);
Abraham M. Hammacher, Barbara Hepworth, Thames & Hudson, London, 1987, no.178, illustrated pp.198-9 (complete set);
Penelope Curtis and Alan G. Wilkinson, Barbara Hepworth, A Retrospective, Tate Gallery Publications, London, 1994, illustrated p.155 (complete set);
Matthew Gale & Chris Stephens, Barbara Hepworth: Works in the Tate Gallery Collection and the Barbara Hepworth Museum, St Ives, London, 1999, illustrated p.18 (another cast);
Sophie Bowness (ed.), Barbara Hepworth, The Plasters, Lund Humphries, Farnham, 2011, illustrated pl.38 (plaster version);
Penelope Curtis, Barbara Hepworth, Tate Publishing, London, 2012, illustrated pp.74-6 (complete set).
We are grateful to Dr. Sophie Bowness for her kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work, which will feature in her forthcoming revised catalogue raisonné of the Artist's sculpture as catalogue number BH513d.
signed, numbered 2/4 and inscribed with Morris Singer foundry mark
bronze
height: 268.6cm.; 105¾in.
Conceived in 1970, the present work is number 2 of the 4 individual casts that were made of each of the nine figures. There are also two group casts of the complete set of nine figures.
