Dame Barbara Hepworth 1903-1975

Sculpture with Colour, 1940

signed with initials, dated and numbered B.H. / 9/9 / 1940 (lower right edge of the base), inscribed with foundry mark and dated again M/S / 1968 (lower left edge of the base)
polished bronze, with pigment and strings, on a bronze base

width including base: 6 inches (15.2 cm)

Conceived in 1940, and cast in 1968 by Morris Singer Foundry, London, in an edition of 9, plus an artist's cast. This work is recorded as BH 459.

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Provenance

New Art Centre, London, where acquired by Mrs John Swarthy, Florida in 1980
Thence by descent to Bertha Betts, New York
Thence by descent to a private collection, Mexico

Literature

J.P. Hodin, Barbara Hepworth, London, 1961, n.p., no. 117, plaster version illustrated
Alan Bowness, The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960-69, London, 1971, p. 46, no. 459.
Exhibition catalogue, The Non-Objective World 1914-1955, London, Annely Juda Fine Art, 1973,
p. 89, no. 53, another cast illustrated
Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth, 1903-1975: 50 sculptures from 1935 to 1970, London, Gimpel Fils, 1975, n.p., no. 6, another cast illustrated
Exhibition catalogue, Hepworth, New York, Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, 1977, n.p., no. 14, another cast illustrated
Sophie Bowness (ed.), Barbara Hepworth The Plasters: The Gift to Wakefield, Farnham, 2011, pp. 36, 47, 104, no. 3, fig, 7, plaster cast and another cast illustrated

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Dame Barbara Hepworth 1903-1975

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