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Details
DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)
Pierced Form (Toledo)
mahogany with string, on a black-painted wooden base
35 1/4 in. (89.5 cm.) high, excluding base
Carved in 1957.
This work is recorded as BH 232.
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by Charles and Peter Gimpel in 1959.
with Spruth Magers Lee, London, where purchased by the present owner in 2003.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Recent Works by Barbara Hepworth London, Gimpel Fils, 1958, n.p., no. 8, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Leeds Centenary Musical Festival, Leeds, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1958, n.p., no. 37, illustrated.
E. Roditi, Dialogues on Art, London, 1960, pp. 96-97, illustrated.
J.P. Hodin, Barbara Hepworth London, 1961, p. 169, no. 232, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth An Exhibition of Sculpture from 1952-1962, London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1962, n.p., no. 27, illustrated.
M. Shepherd, Barbara Hepworth London, 1963, p. 39, pl. 10.
Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth Retrospective 1935-64, Copenhagen, British Council, Kunstforeningen, 1964, n.p., no. 12, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth Retrospective 1935-64, Torino, Museo De Arte Contemporanea, 1965, pp. 46-47, no. 15, illustrated.
A.M. Hammacher, Barbara Hepworth London, 1968, p. 203, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth London, Gimpel Fils, 1975, n.p., no. 17, illustrated.
A. Bowness (ed.), Barbara Hepworth A Pictorial Autobiography, London, 1985, n.p., no. 348, illustrated.
A.G. Wilkinson, exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth : Sculptures from the Estate, New York, Wildenstein, 1996, pp. 38-39, exhibition not numbered, illustrated.
S. Bowness (ed.), Barbara Hepworth Writings and Conversations, London, 2015, p. 157.
P. Curtis and C. Stephens (eds.), exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth London, Tate Britain, 2015, p. 92, fig. 87.
S. Bowness, Barbara Hepworth The Sculptor in the Studio, London, 2017, p. 31, fig. 24.
Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth Paris, Musée Rodin, 2019, p. 25, fig. 2.
Exhibited
London, Gimpel Fils, Recent Works by Barbara Hepworth June 1958, no. 8.
Leeds, Arts Council of Great Britain, Town Hall, Leeds Centenary Musical Festival, October 1958, no. 37.
São Paulo, British Council, Museu De Arte Moderna, 5th São Paulo Bienal, September - December 1959: this exhibition travelled to Montevideo, Comision National De Bellas Artes, April - May 1960; Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional De Bellas Artes, May - June 1960; Santiago, Universidad De Santiago Art Gallery, September - October 1960.
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Barbara Hepworth An Exhibition of Sculpture from 1952-1962, May 1962, no. 27.
Copenhagen, British Council, Kunstforeningen, Barbara Hepworth Retrospective 1935-64, September - October 1964, no. 12: this exhibition travelled to Stockholm, Moderna Museet, November - December 1964; Helsinki, Ateneum, January - February 1965; Oslo, Kunstnernes Hus, March 1965; Otterlo, Rijksmuseum Kroller Muller, May - July 1965; Basel, Kunsthalle, September - October 1965; Torino, Museo De Arte Contemporanea, October - December 1965, no. 15; Karlsruhe, Badischer Kunstverein, February 1966; and Essen, Folkwang Museum, April 1966.
London, Tate Gallery, Barbara Hepworth April - May 1968, no. 86.
London, Austin Reed, The St Ives Group: Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture and Ceramics, September 1968, no. 68.
Plymouth, City Art Gallery, Barbara Hepworth June - August 1970, no. 31.
Nice, 5th Salon International de la Femme, October 1970, no. B.H. 830.
London, Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth October - November 1975, no. 17.
London, Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth October - November 1994, exhibition not numbered, ex. cat.
New York, Wildenstein, Barbara Hepworth Sculptures from the Estate, October - November 1996, exhibition not numbered.
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