Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)
Property from a Private American Collection 
Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)

Spring Form in Marble

Details
Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)
Spring Form in Marble
Portuguese pink marble
Height: 14¾ in. (37.5 cm.)
Executed in 1970; unique
Provenance
New Art Centre, Salisbury, England.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2006.
Literature
D. Kuspit, Artforum, Summer 2001, vol. XXXIX, no. 10, p. 183.
Exhibited
New York, Gimpel-Weitzenhoffer Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, March-April 1971, no. 20 (illustrated).
Austin, University of Texas Art Museum, Archer M. Huntington Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, September 1971, no. 7.
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Barbara Hepworth, Carvings and Bronzes, May-June 1979, p. 22, no. 5 (illustrated).
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Barbara Hepworth, Carvings, July-August 1982, p. 25, no. 17 (illustrated in color).
Wakefield, Elizabethan Exhibition Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, Late Carvings, May-July 1985, p. 10, no. 3 (illustrated).
London, New Art Centre, A Sculptor's Landscape, November-December 1993.
Salisbury, New Art Centre, Roche Court Sculpture Park, 1994-1996.
London, Crane Kalman, Ben Nicholson and His Two Wives, March-May 1996, no. 5 (illustrated in color).
New York, PaceWildenstein, Barbara Hepworth, Sculptures from the Estate, October-November 1996, p. 109 (illustrated in color, p. 81).
New York, PaceWildenstein, Barbara Hepworth, Stone Sculpture, February-March 2001, p. 8, no. 10 (illustrated in color, p. 31).
Salisbury, New Art Centre Sculpture Park & Gallery, Barbara Hepworth Centenary, February-April 2003.
Cornwall, Tate St Ives, Barbara Hepworth, Centenary, May-October 2003, p. 86, no. 44 (illustrated; illustrated in color, p. 92).
Nancy, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Barbara Hepworth, January-March 2006, p. 131, no. 46 (illustrated in color, p. 104).

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Lot Essay

Dr. Sophie Bowness will include this sculpture in her forthcoming revised Hepworth catalogue raisonné under the archive number BH 502.

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