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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 16, 2024 | Forms in Movement (Pavan) | 7 | Christie's | London | |||
sculpture
109.2 cm (42.99 in)
bronze with a dark green and white patina
signed, numbered, dated and stamped with foundry mark "Barbara Hepworth 1956 7/7/CAST 1967" (on the base)
with Gimpel Fils, London, where purchased by the present owner"s father in 1968, and by descent.
London, Tate Gallery, Barbara Hepworth: A Retrospective, April - May 1968, no. 78, another cast exhibited.
London, Financial Times Foyer, Sculpture Exhibition: City of London Festival , June 1968, no. 22, another cast exhibited.
London, Syon Park, Sculpture Exhibition, S ummer 1968, another cast exhibited, catalogue not traced.
New York, Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, Barbara Hepworth, April - May 1969, n.p., no. 15, as ‘Pavan", another cast illustrated.
London, Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth 1903-75 , October - November 1975, n.p., no. 11, another cast illustrated.
Norwich, Castle Museum, on long term loan, 2018 - 2023.
C. Nemser, ‘In the Galleries", Arts , Vol. 43, no. 7, May 1969, p. 59.
E. Mullins, exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth Exhibition , Japan, Hakone Open-Air Museum, 1970, n.p.
A. Bowness (ed.), The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960-69 , London, 1971, p. 46, no. 453.
D.F. Jenkins, Barbara Hepworth: A Guide to the Tate Gallery Collection at London and St Ives , Cornwall, 1982, pp. 17, 30, another cast illustrated.
Tate Gallery Acquisitions 1980-82 , London, 1984, pp. 114-115, another cast illustrated.
M. Williams, People and Places in Cornwall, 1985, p. 59.
P. Curtis and A.G. Wilkinson, exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth: A Retrospective, Liverpool, Tate Gallery, 1994, p. 99.
S. Festing, Barbara Hepworth: A Life of Forms, New York, 1995, p. 224.
P. Curtis, Barbara Hepworth , London, 1998, p. 39.
M. Gale and C. Stephens, Barbara Hepworth: Works in the Tate Gallery Collection and the Barbara Hepworth Museum St Ives , London, 1999, pp. 154-157, no. 36, another cast illustrated.
S. Bowness (ed.), Barbara Hepworth: The Plasters: The Gift to Wakefield , Farnham, 2011, pp. 112-113.
C. Chevillot and S. Matson, exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth, Paris, Musée Rodin, 2019, p. 27, fig. 4, another cast illustrated.
DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)
Forms in Movement (Pavan)
signed, numbered, dated and stamped with foundry mark "Barbara Hepworth 1956 7/7/CAST 1967" (on the base)
bronze with a dark green and white patina
43 in. (109.2 cm.) wide
Conceived in concrete in 1956-59 and cast in bronze by Morris Singer Founders, London, in 1967.
This work is recorded as BH 453.
