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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 2016 | OVAL WITH TWO FORMS | 1 | Sotheby's | London | |||
sculpture
33 cm (12.99 in)
bronze
Hepworth Estate
Acquired by a Private Collection through Marlborough Gallery, New York, 1981
U.S.A. Corporate Collection
Their sale, Christie's New York, 16th May 1990, lot 477
Gimpel Fils and New Art Centre, London, where acquired by a Private Collection, Chicago
Acquired from the above by the present owner
St Ives, Penwith Gallery, Summer Exhibition 1972, 15th June - 7th September 1972, cat. no.4 (another cast);<br>London, Marlborough Fine Art, Twentieth Century Sculpture, 5th May - 29th June 1979, un-numbered exhibition (another cast);<br>New York, Marlborough Gallery, Barbara Hepworth: Carvings and Bronzes, 5th May - 29th June 1979, cat. no.50, illustrated p.55;<br>Swansea, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery and Museum, Barbara Hepworth: A Sculptor’s Landscape, 2nd October - 6th November 1982, cat. no.31, illustrated (another cast), with tour to Bangor, Wrexham and the Isle of Man; <br>New York, Wildenstein Gallery, Barbara Hepworth: Sculptures from the Estate, 8th October - 16th November 1996, illustrated p.91 (another cast);<br>Salisbury, New Art Centre, Barbara Hepworth: Polished Bronzes, 6th December 2001 - 24th February 2002, illustrated (another cast);<br>Wakefield, Wakefield Art Gallery, Barbara Hepworth: Polished Bronzes, May - June 2003 (another cast), with tour to Museum het Catharina Gasthuis, Gouda;<br>Wakefield, The Hepworth Wakefield, A Greater Freedom: Hepworth 1965-1975, 18th April 2015 - 24th April 2016 (another cast).
Penelope Curtis, Barbara Hepworth, Tate Publishing, London, 2013, illustrated fig.57 (marble version).
the present work is number 1 from the edition of 9, plus 1 Artist's Cast.
