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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 2016 | Sea Form (Atlantic) | 6 | Christie's | London | |||
sculpture
203.2 cm (80 in)
bronze with a brown/green patina
signed, dated and numbered ‘Barbara Hepworth 1964 6/6’ (on the top of the base) and inscribed with foundry mark ‘Morris/Singer/FOUNDERS/LONDON’ (on the back of the base)
Purchased directly from the artist through Gimpel Fils, in September 1966 by Mr & Mrs Samuel G. Rautbord, Chicago.
Their sale; Christie’s, New York, 13 May 1998, lot 208, where purchased by the present owner.
Otterlo, British Council Tour, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Beeldhouwwerken en Tekeningen van Barbara Hepworth, May - July 1965, no. 43, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to Basel, Kunsthalle, September - October 1965, no. 33; Torino, British Council, Galleria Civica D’Arte Moderna, October - November 1965, no. 41; Karlsruhe, Badischer Kunstverein, February- March 1966, no. 33; and Essen, Museum Folkwang, April - June 1966, no. 33.
St Ives, Penwith Society of Arts; Penwith Society of Arts Summer Exhibition 1965, August - October 1965, no. 2 of sculpture section, another cast exhibited.
Athens, Panathene´es de la Sculpture Mondiale, September - November 1965, no. 2, lent by the artist, n.p.
New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, April - May 1966, no. 17, another cast exhibited, n.p., another cast illustrated.
London, Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth, May - June 1966, no. 4, possibly cast 6 exhibited, n.p., illustrated.
London, Battersea Park, Sculpture in the Open Air, May - September 1966, no. 17, another cast exhibited, n.p., another cast illustrated.
Birmingham, Cannon Hill Park, Outdoor Sculpture, April – May 1967, no. 1, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to Norwich, Castle Museum Gardens, May - June; and Northampton, Abington Park, June - July, n.p., another cast illustrated.
Montreal, Expo. 67, Sculpture: Exposition Internationale de Sculpture Contemporaine, Summer 1967, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited, pp. 84, 118, another cast illustrated.
London, Tate Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, April - May 1968, no. 145, cast 5/6 exhibited, pp. 5, 38, 60, cast 5/6 illustrated.
Edinburgh, Royal Botanic Garden and Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Barbara Hepworth: Late Works, August - September 1976, no. 2, another cast exhibited, pp. 9-11, another cast illustrated.
Wakefield, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Barbara Hepworth, July - October 1980, no. 12, another cast exhibited, pp. 13, 20, another cast illustrated.
New York, Marlborough, Hepworth, Lipchitz, Moore, December 2000 - January 2001, no. 4, another cast exhibited, pp. 8-9, another cast illustrated.
Wakefield, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Barbara Hepworth: Centenary, May – September 2003, no. 94, another cast exhibited, pp. 134, 143, another cast illustrated.
Bakewell, Chatsworth, Beyond Limits: The Landscape of British Sculpture 1950-2015, September - October 2015, exhibition not numbered, pp. 60-64, 224, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Beeldhouwwerken en Tekeningen van Barbara Hepworth, Otterlo, British Council Tour, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, 1965, no. 43, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth, Basel, Kunsthalle, 1965, n.p., no. 33, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth, Torino, British Council Tour, Galleria Civica D’Arte Moderna, 1965, pp. 98-99, no. 41, another cast illustrated.
B. Hepworth and A. Bowness, Barbara Hepworth: Drawings from a Sculptor’s Landscape, London, 1966, p. 12, another cast illustrated.
A. Bowness, The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960–69, London, 1971, pp. 12, 38, no. 362, pls 103, 104, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth: A Retrospective, Liverpool, Tate Gallery, 1994, pp. 105, 160, another cast illustrated.
P. Curtis, Barbara Hepworth, Tate Gallery, London, 1998, pp. 45, 47, pl. 47, another cast illustrated.
M. Gale and C. Stephens, Barbara Hepworth: Works in the Tate Gallery Collection and the Barbara Hepworth Museum, St Ives, 1999, p. 202, another cast.
B. Hepworth, Barbara Hepworth: A Pictorial Autobiography, London, 2008, pp. 103, 109, pls. 286, 301, another cast illustrated.
S. Bowness (ed.), Barbara Hepworth: The Plasters, The Gift to Wakefield, London, 2011, pp. 46-47, 54, 93, 140, pls. 41, 47, plaster illustrated.
P. Curtis, St. Ives Artists: Barbara Hepworth, London, 2012, pp. 45, 47, fig. 47, another cast illustrated.
S. Bowness (ed.), Barbara Hepworth Writings and Conversations, London, 2015, pp. 223-224.
in an edition of 6 plus 0 (the artist’s proof). This work is recorded as BH 362, cast 6/6.
