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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 2019 | The Family of Man (Figure 8, The Bride) | 3 | Christie's | London | |||
sculpture
246.4 cm (97 in)
bronze with a dark brown and green patina and polished bronze
signed and numbered 'Barbara Hepworth 3/4' (on the bottom right of the lower section) and stamped with foundry mark 'Morris/Singer/FOUNDERS/LONDON' (on the bottom left of the lower section)
with Marlborough Galerie, Zürich, where purchased by the present owner in 1972.
New York, Gimpel Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, March - April 1971, no. 26, another cast exhibited.
Austin, University of Texas Art Museum, Archer M. Huntington Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, September 1971, no. 14, another cast exhibited.
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Barbara Hepworth: The Family of Man - Nine Bronzes and Recent Carvings, April - May 1972, no. 8, another cast exhibited.
Toronto, Marlborough Godard, Barbara Hepworth: Carvings and Bronzes, May 1973, no. 6, another cast exhibited.
New York, Marlborough Gallery, Twentieth Century Monumental Sculpture, October - November 1974, no. 6, another cast exhibited.
Zurich, Marlborough Galerie, Barbara Hepworth, August - October 1975, no. 14, another cast exhibited.
Edinburgh, Edinburgh International Festival, Royal Botanic Garden, Barbara Hepworth Late Works, August - September 1976, no. 11H, another cast exhibited.
West Bretton, Arts Council of Great Britain, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Barbara Hepworth, July - October 1980, no. 26h, another cast exhibited.
Mountainville, New York State, Storm King Art Center, Barbara Hepworth, June - October 1982, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited.
Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth: The Family of Man - Nine Bronzes and Recent Carvings, London, Marlborough Fine Art, 1972, pp. 16-17, 32-33, 64, no. 8, another cast illustrated.
A. Matheson, 'Controversy of her sculpture doesn't worry Barbara Hepworth', The Australian Women's Weekly, 16 May 1973, p. 8, another cast illustrated.
C. Nemser, Art Talk: Conversations with 12 Women Artists, New York, 1975, pp. 20, 23, 32-33, group illustrated.
D. Hall (intro.), exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth, Late Works, Edinburgh, Edinburgh International Festival, Royal Botanic Garden, 1976, pp. 9, 20, 24, no. 11H, another cast illustrated and group illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth, West Bretton, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 1980, pp. 2, 13, 30-31, no. 26h, another cast illustrated and group illustrated as a frontispiece.
B. Hepworth, A Pictorial Autobiography, London, 1985, p. 131, no. 349, group illustrated.
A.M. Hammacher, Barbara Hepworth, London, 1987, pp. 198-199, 203, fig. 178, group illustrated.
M. Tooby, Tate Gallery St Ives: Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden: An Illustrated Companion, London, 1993, p. 13, plaster illustrated.
P. Curtis and A.G. Wilkinson, exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth, A Retrospective, Liverpool, Tate Gallery, 1994, p. 115, group illustrated.
A.G. Wilkinson, Barbara Hepworth Sculptures from the Estate, New York, Wildenstein, 1996, pp. 7, 30-31, 99, group referenced.
P. Curtis, Barbara Hepworth, St Ives Artists, London, 1998, pp. 70, 74-75, figs. 62, 66, group illustrated and plaster illustrated.
M. Gale and C. Stephens, Barbara Hepworth: Works in the Tate Collection and the Barbara Hepworth Museum St Ives, London, 1999, pp. 14, 127, 144, 246, 266, 269, 273, group referenced.
M. Phillips and C. Stephens, Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden, London, 2002, p. 8, plaster referenced.
E. Cooper, 'Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975): the sculptor's close links to the crafts', Crafts, September - October 2003, p. 29, no. 184, plaster illustrated.
S. Bowness (ed.), Barbara Hepworth, The Plasters, The Gift to Wakefield, Farnham, 2011, pp. 43-45, 63, pls. 32-34, plaster illustrated.
S. Bowness (ed.), Barbara Hepworth, Writings and Conversations, London, 2015, pp. 226, 243, 246, 248-250, 257, 264, 283, 287, 294, group referenced.
S. Bowness, Barbara Hepworth: The Sculptor in the Studio, London, 2017, pp. 66, 70, 109, 118, 143, figs. 68-70, 122, plaster and group illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth: Formed From Nature, London, Frieze Masters, Simon Dickinson, 2018, p. 10, fig. 5, plaster illustrated.
A. Hickey (intro.), exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth: A Matter of Form, New York, Pace Gallery, 2018, pp. 8-9, 12, 14-15, fig. 4, group illustrated.
This work is recorded as BH 513h.
Conceived in 1970 and cast in an edition of 4, with 2 further full sets cast.
