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Details
DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)
Forms in Movement (Pavan)
signed, numbered and dated ‘Barbara Hepworth 1956 1/7’ (on the top of the base), stamped with foundry mark and dated again ‘CAST 1967’ (on the back of the base)
bronze with a green brown patina
42 1/2 in. (108 cm.) wide
Conceived in concrete in 1956-59 and cast in bronze by Morris Singer Founders, London, in 1967.
This work is recorded as BH 453, cast 1/7.
Provenance
with Gimpel Fils, London, where purchased by the previous owner's father in March 1968, and by descent.
Their sale, Christie's, London, 25 November 2015, lot 29, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth New York, Gimpel Gallery, 1969, no. 15, as ‘Pavan’, another cast illustrated.
C. Nemser, ‘In the Galleries’, Arts, Vol. 43, no. 7, May 1969, p. 59.
E. Mullins, ‘Barbara Hepworth’ in exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth Exhibition 1970, Japan, Hakone Open-Air Museum, 1970, n.p.
A. Bowness (ed.), The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960-69, London, 1971, p. 46, no. 453.
Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth 1903-75, London, Gimpel Fils, 1975, no. 11, another cast illustrated.
D.F. Jenkins, Barbara Hepworth A Guide to the Tate Gallery Collection at London and St Ives, Cornwall, 1982, pp. 17, 30, another cast illustrated.
Tate Gallery Acquisitions 1980-82, London, 1984, pp. 114-115, another cast illustrated.
M. Williams, People and Places in Cornwall, 1985, p. 59, another cast.
A.G. Wilkinson, ‘Cornwall and the Sculpture of Landscape: 1939-1975’ in P. Curtis and A.G. Wilkinson, exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth A Retrospective, Liverpool, Tate Gallery, 1994, p. 99.
S. Festing, Barbara Hepworth A Life of Forms, 1995, p. 224.
P. Curtis, Barbara Hepworth London, 1998, p. 39.
M. Gale and C. Stephens, Barbara Hepworth Works in the Tate Gallery Collection and the Barbara Hepworth Museum St Ives, London, 1999, pp. 154-157, no. 36, another cast illustrated.
S. Bowness (ed.), Barbara Hepworth The Plasters: The Gift to Wakefield, Farnham, 2011, pp. 112-113.
C. Chevillot and S. Matson, exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth Paris, Musée Rodin, 2019, p. 27, fig. 4, another cast illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Tate Gallery, Barbara Hepworth April - May 1968, no. 78.
London, Financial Times Foyer, Sculpture Exhibition: City of London Festival, June 1968, no. 22, another cast exhibited.
London, Syon Park, Sculpture Exhibition, Summer 1968, another cast exhibited, catalogue not traced.
New York, Gimpel Gallery, Barbara Hepworth April - May 1969, no. 15, as ‘Pavan’, another cast exhibited.
London, Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth 1903-75, October - November 1975, no. 11.
Special Notice
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