Barbara Hepworth
Surgery
, circa 1949
oil & pencil on paper on board
signed lower right
19 x 29 in /49 x 73 cm
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Barbara Hepworth
Two Opposing Forms, Grey & Green
, 1969
marble
height 11 in / 27.9 cm
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Provenance
Sir Martin Beckett
Exhibitions
Marlborough Fine Art Ltd, London
Tate Gallery, Liverpool, Barbara Hepworth, Recent Work, 1970, no. 36, illus.
Yale Centre for British Art and Art Gallery of Ontario, Barbara Hepworth: Retrospective, illus.
Literature
A Bowness (ed.), The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960-69, p.49, pl.193, no.492, illus.
Barbara Hepworth
Pierced Form (Sautorin)
, 1963
marble
height: 17 in / 43 cm
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Exhibitions
Gimpel & Hanover Galerie, Zurich, Barbara Hepworth, 1963, no.20
Tate Gallery, London, 1968, no.133
Gimpel Fils, London, Barbara Hepworth & Ben Nicholson, 1990
Auditorio de Galicia Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Contemporary British Sculpture, 1995 and then at Fundacao de Serralves, Portugal, 1995, p102, illus.
Barbara Hepworth
Biolith
, 1948-49
blue ancaster stone
signed
height 48 in / 121.9 cm
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Provenance
Edmund Arnold and by decent
Exhibitions
Lefevre Gallery, New Sculpture and Drawings by Barbara Hepworth, 1951, no 4
Barbara Hepworth
Darkwood Sculpture
, 1946
rosewood
height 8 1/2 in / 21.6 cm
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Exhibitions
Alex Reid & Lefevre, 1946, no.30
Barbara Hepworth
Drawing for Sculpture
, 1942
gouache & pencil on paper
10 x 13 in / 25.4 x 33 cm
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Provenance
Estate of John Wells
Barbara Hepworth
Conoid, Sphere & Hollow II
, 1937
serravezza marble
12 x 18 in / 30.5 x 45.7 cm
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Exhibitions
Wakefield City Art Gallery & Bankfield Museum, Halifax, Barbara Hepworth Retrospective, 1944, no.20
Lefevre Gallery, 1946, no.3
Festival of Britain, Wakefield City Art Gallery, Barbara Hepworth Retrospective, 1951, no.18
Whitechapel Art Gallery, Barbara Hepworth 1927 – 1954, 1954, no.29
Literature
Architectural Review, 1954, ill. front cover
J P Hodin, Barbara Hepworth, Life & Work, 1961, no.100
Barbara Hepworth
Discs in Echelon
, 1935
aluminium
unique, cast 1936
height 14 in /35.6 cm
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