Property of a North American Collector
Dame Barbara Hepworth
Three Obliques (Walk in)
Estimate
3,500,000 - 4,500,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Dame Barbara Hepworth
1903 - 1975
Three Obliques (Walk In)
signed Barbara Hepworth, dated 1968, numbered 1/2 and stamped with the foundry mark Morris Singer Founders (lower edge)
bronze with a mottled green, brown and golden patina
288.9 by 466.1 by 330 cm. 113¾ by 183½ by 130 in.
Conceived in 1968 and cast in 1969 by Morris Singer Foundry, London, the present work is number 1 from an edition of 2, plus 1 Artist's Cast.
This work is recorded as BH 473.
Viewing is available at Replica Shoes 's Greenford Park.
Gimpel Fils, London
Acquired from the above by the Exxonmobil Foundation, February 1972
Their sale, Replica Shoes 's New York, 3 May 2006, lot 50
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
London, Gimpel Fils, Open Air Sculpture at Syon Park, Summer 1969
London, Gimpel Fils, Open Air Sculpture at Syon Park II, Summer 1970, no. 10
Hakone, Hakone Open-Air Museum, Barbara Hepworth Exhibition, June - September 1970, no. 30, another cast exhibited
New York, Gimpel Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, May - April 1971, no. 8, another cast exhibited
London, Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth, October - November 1972, no. 32
London, Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth: 20 Sculptures from 1935 to 1970, October - November 1975, no. 54
Bakewell, Chatsworth House, Beyond Limits, September - November 2007, exhibition not numbered, incorrectly listed as cast '1/2', another cast exhibited
Alan Bowness (ed.), The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960-69, London, Lund Humphries, 1971, p. 47, no. 473, pl. 14, another cast illustrated
W.J. Strachan, Open Air Sculpture in Britain: A Comprehensive Guide, London, Tate Gallery, 1984, p. 212, no. 488, another cast illustrated
Eugene Rosenberg, Architect's Choice: Art in Architecture in Britain since 1945, London, Thames and Hudson, 1992, pp. 94-95, another cast illustrated
Penelope Curtis, Barbara Hepworth, London, Tate Publishing, 1998, pl. 45, p. 43, another cast illustrated
Matthew Gale and Chris Stephens, Barbara Hepworth: Works in the Tate Gallery Collection and the Barbara Hepworth Museum St. Ives, London, Tate Publishing, 1999, pp. 238 and 252
Christina Haberlik, Ulrike Braun and Ira Diana Mazzoni, 50 Klassiker Kunstlerinnen: Malerinnen, Bildhauerinnen und Photographinnen, Gerstenberg, 2002, p. 26, another cast illustrated
Penelope Curtis and Chris Stephens (eds.), Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World, London, Tate Britain, 2015, p. 95, fig. 90, another cast illustrated
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