Dame Barbara Hepworth 1903-1975
Five Standing Nudes, 1950
signed and dated 'Barbara Hepworth, 9/9/1950' (lower left)
oil and pencil on board
oil and pencil on board
14 ¾ x 29 ¾ inches (37.7 x 75.5 cm)
Five Standing Nudes will be included in the catalogue raisonné of Barbara Hepworth’s drawings and paintings currently being compiled by Dr. Sophie Bowness as no. D 256A.
Provenance
The Artist
Private Collection, acquired directly from Barbara Hepworth circa 1960
Sale, Christie’s London, 13 June 1980, lot 327
Private Collection
Sale, Sotheby’s London, Postwar and Contemporary Art in Britain, 11 November 1987, lot 215
Private Collection, London, thence by descent
Exhibitions
London, Michael Parkin Gallery, Cornwall 1925-1975 : 'a sense of place ... a sense of light’,
6 Feb - 16 March 1985, no. 51