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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 17, 2014 | Cantate Domino | 2 | Bonhams | London | |||
sculpture
209.8 cm (82.6 in)
bronze with a green patina
Acquired directly from the Artist, from the 1958 Leeds City Art Gallery exhibition, by Barbara and Arnold Burton
London, Gimpel Fils, Recent Works by Barbara Hepworth, June 1958, cat.no.13 (another cast),Leeds, City Art Gallery, Modern Sculpture, October-November 1958, cat.no.58 (ill.b&w pl.9, this cast),Antwerp, Middelheimpark, 5e Biennale voor Beeldhouwkunst, 1959, cat.no.49 (another cast),São Paolo, Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna, Paintings by Francis Bacon, Paintings & Etchings by S.W. Hayter, Sculpture & Drawings by Barbara Hepworth, September-December 1959, cat.no.19 (another cast),New York, Galerie Chalette, Hepworth, October-November 1959, cat.no.25 (ill., another cast),Washington D.C., Smithsonian Institute, British Artist Craftsmen: An Exhibition of Contemporary Work, 1959-60, cat.no.10 (ill., another cast); this exhibition travelled throughout the United States,Montevideo, Comisión National de Bellas Artes, Barbara Hepworth, organised by the British Council, April-May 1960, cat.no.18 (another cast); this exhibition travelled to Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, May-June, Santiago, Instituto de Arte Moderno, September-October, Viña del Mar, Museo de Bellas Artes, October and Caracas, Museo de Bellas Artes, November 1960,Antwerp, Middelheimpark, 6e Biennale voor Beeldhouwkunst, July-October 1959, cat.no.142 (another cast),London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Barbara Hepworth: An Exhibition of Sculpture from 1952-1962, May-June 1962, cat.no.35 (ill., another cast),Coventry, Coventry Cathedral Festival, Herbert Art Gallery, Artists Serve the Church: An Exhibition of Modern Religious Work, 1962, cat.no.13 (another cast),Otterlo, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Rietveld Pavilion, Beeldhouwwerken en Tekeningen van Barbara Hepworth, May-July 1965, cat.no.17 (ill., another cast),London, Tate Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, April-May 1968, cat.no.91 (another cast , ill.b&w this cast),Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Bretton Hall, Barbara Hepworth, July-October 1980, cat.no.2 (ill., another cast)
Barbara Hepworth's New Sculpture', Times, 3 June 1958,J.P. Hodin, Barbara Hepworth, Lund Humphries, London, 1961, p.22 & p.170, cat.no.244 (ill.b&w p.132, another cast, ill.b&w p.133, this cast),Norbert Lynton, 'London Letter', Art International, vol.6, cat.no.7, September 1962, p.47,Michael Shepherd, Barbara Hepworth, Methuen, London, 1963, p.39, (ill. pl.12, another cast),Tate Gallery Report 1967-8, 1968, p.62,Edwin Mullins, 'Barbara Hepworth' in Barbara Hepworth Exhibition 1970, exh.cat., Hakone Open-Air Museum, Japan 1970 (ill.b&w, another cast),Judith Rich, 'Barbara Hepworth', The Guardian, 17 January, 1973, p.8,Michael Davie, 'By-laws bar Dame Barbara's tombstone', The Observer, 25 May 1975,A.M. Hammacher, Barbara Hepworth, 1968, rev.ed. 1987, p.130 (ill.b&w p.129, pl.104, another cast),David Fraser Jenkins, Barbara Hepworth: A Guide to the Tate Gallery Collection at London and St Ives, Cornwall, 1982, p.17 (ill. p.31, another cast),Sally Festing, Barbara Hepworth: A Life of Forms, 1995, p.225, p.238 & p.305 (ill. p.280 and 281, pl.54, another cast),Matthew Gale and Chris Stephens, Barbara Hepworth, Works in the Tate Collection and the Barbara Hepworth Museum St Ives, Tate Publishing, London, 2001, p.179-181 (col.ill., another cast)Cantate Domino is a powerful and elegant sculpture by Dame Barbara Hepworth, conceived in 1958, just two years after the sculptor had begun to work with bronze; her first recorded piece using this medium (from her professional career at least one student bronze survives) is Curved Form (Trevalgan) (see fig.1). The present sculpture, intended to be sited outdoors, is most successful when viewed in the context of its surrounding landscape as beautifully illustrated in plate 244 in J.P. Hodin's , Barbara Hepworth (1961). Tastefully positioned in the Burton family's old garden on a low wall, with the undulating Yorkshire hills used as a backdrop, we can begin to understand the spiritual nature of this work as the ascending forms reach into the limitless void of the sky above (see fig. 2)
