Lot Essay
The plaster Vertical Form remains in the plaster workshop at Trewyn Studio, The Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Gallery, St Ives.
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Vertical Form
Details
Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)
Vertical Form
numbered '2/7' (at the base)
bronze with a green patina, on a black stone base
26½ in. (67.3 cm.) high, excluding base
Conceived in 1962.
This work is recorded as BH 353, cast 2/7.
Vertical Form
numbered '2/7' (at the base)
bronze with a green patina, on a black stone base
26½ in. (67.3 cm.) high, excluding base
Conceived in 1962.
This work is recorded as BH 353, cast 2/7.
Provenance
Acquired by the previous owner through Gimpel Fils, London, in September 1964.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 17 November 2011, lot 144, where purchased by the present owner.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 17 November 2011, lot 144, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
A. Bowness (ed.), The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960-1969, London, 1971, p. 37, no. 353, another cast illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth, June 1964, no. 39, another cast exhibited.
London, Gimpel Fils, Collectors' Choice XIII, March - April 1965, no. 45, another cast exhibited.
Copenhagen, British Council, Kunstforeningen, Barbara Hepworth, September - October 1964, no. 37, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to Stockholm, Moderna Museet, November - December 1964; Helsinki, Ateneum, January - February 1965; Oslo, Utstilling I Kunstnernes Hus, March 1965; Otterlo, Rietveld Pavilion, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, May - July 1965, no. 33.
Basel, Kunsthalle, Barbara Hepworth, September - October 1965, no. 31, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to Karslruhe, Badischer Kunstverein, February - March 1966; and Essen, Museum Folkwang, April - June 1966.
Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, British Council, Barbara Hepworth, October - November 1965, no. 31, another cast exhibited.
London, Tate Gallery, Barbara Hepworth Retrospective 1927-1967, April - May 1968, no. 141, another cast exhibited.
Uttoxeter, Abbotsholme, Arts Council of Great Britain, Barbara Hepworth Sculpture and Lithographs, January - February 1970, no. 10, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to Oxford, Ashmolean Museum; Nottingham, Castle Museum; Ilkeley, Manor House Museum and Art Gallery; Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art; Coventry, Belgrade Theatre; Shrewsbury, Art Gallery; Letchworth, Museum and Art Gallery; Kettering, Art Gallery; Cardiff, National Museum of Wales; Cambridge, Ede Gallery; Eastbourne, Towner Art Gallery; and Southampton, Art Gallery, February 1970 - January 1971.
London, Gimpel Fils, Collectors' Choice XIII, March - April 1965, no. 45, another cast exhibited.
Copenhagen, British Council, Kunstforeningen, Barbara Hepworth, September - October 1964, no. 37, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to Stockholm, Moderna Museet, November - December 1964; Helsinki, Ateneum, January - February 1965; Oslo, Utstilling I Kunstnernes Hus, March 1965; Otterlo, Rietveld Pavilion, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, May - July 1965, no. 33.
Basel, Kunsthalle, Barbara Hepworth, September - October 1965, no. 31, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to Karslruhe, Badischer Kunstverein, February - March 1966; and Essen, Museum Folkwang, April - June 1966.
Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, British Council, Barbara Hepworth, October - November 1965, no. 31, another cast exhibited.
London, Tate Gallery, Barbara Hepworth Retrospective 1927-1967, April - May 1968, no. 141, another cast exhibited.
Uttoxeter, Abbotsholme, Arts Council of Great Britain, Barbara Hepworth Sculpture and Lithographs, January - February 1970, no. 10, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to Oxford, Ashmolean Museum; Nottingham, Castle Museum; Ilkeley, Manor House Museum and Art Gallery; Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art; Coventry, Belgrade Theatre; Shrewsbury, Art Gallery; Letchworth, Museum and Art Gallery; Kettering, Art Gallery; Cardiff, National Museum of Wales; Cambridge, Ede Gallery; Eastbourne, Towner Art Gallery; and Southampton, Art Gallery, February 1970 - January 1971.
Special Notice
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