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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 20, 2022 | Sculpture with Colour | 2 | Christie's | London | |||
sculpture
polished bronze, with pigment and strings, on a bronze base
signed with initials, dated and numbered 'B.H. / 2/9 / 1940' (lower right edge of the base), inscribed with foundry mark and dated again 'M/S / 1968' (lower left edge of the base)
with Mercury Gallery, London, where purchased by the previous owner in 1969.
Their sale; Doyle, New York, 20 May 2020, lot 6, where purchased by the present owner.
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Art in Britain, 1930-40: Centred around Axis, Circle, Unit One, March - April 1965, ex. cat.
London, Tate Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, April - May 1968, no. 37.
London, Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth , October - November 1972, no. 2, another cast exhibited.
London, Annely Juda Fine Art, The Non-Objective World 1914-1955 , July - September 1973, no. 53, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to Austin, University of Texas Art Museum, October - December.
London, Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth, 1903-1975: 50 sculptures from 1935 to 1970 , October - November 1975, no. 6, another cast exhibited.
New York, Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, Hepworth , March - April 1977, no. 14, another cast exhibited.
Wakefield, City Art Gallery, BH: Polished Bronzes , May - June 2003, exhibition not numbered: this exhibition travelled to The Netherlands, Gouda, Museum Het Catharina Gasthuis, July - September 2003.
J.P. Hodin, Barbara Hepworth, London, 1961, n.p., no. 117, plaster version illustrated.
A. Bowness, The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960-69 , London, 1971, p. 46, no. 459.
Exhibition catalogue, The Non-Objective World 1914-1955 , London, Annely Juda Fine Art, 1973, p. 89, no. 53, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth, 1903-1975: 50 sculptures from 1935 to 1970 , London, Gimpel Fils, 1975, n.p., no. 6, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Hepworth, New York, Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, 1977, n.p., no 14, another cast illustrated.
S. Bowness (ed.), Barbara Hepworth The Plasters: The Gift to Wakefield , Farnham, 2011, pp. 36, 47, 104, no. 3, fig, 7, plaster cast and another cast illustrated.
DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)
Sculpture with Colour
signed with initials, dated and numbered 'B.H. / 2/9 / 1940' (lower right edge of the base), inscribed with foundry mark and dated again 'M/S / 1968' (lower left edge of the base)
polished bronze, with pigment and strings, on a bronze base
6 in. (15.2 cm.) wide, including base
Conceived in 1940, and cast in 1968 by Morris Singer Foundry, London in an edition of 9, plus an artist's cast.
This work is recorded as BH 459.
