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Four of the Wakefield-born artist’s works are being sold by Christie’s.
Four-Square (Walk Through) (BH 433) is a 4.3 metres (14 ft) high bronze sculpture by British artist Barbara Hepworth. It was cast in 1966 in an edition of 3+1 (three casts for sale, plus one artist's copy). The four casts are displayed at the Barbara Hepworth Museum, the Norton Simon Museum, Churchill College, Cambridge, and the Mayo Clinic.
The Family of Man (BH 513) is a series of nine abstract sculptures (BH 513a to 513i) by the British artist Barbara Hepworth. Created as plaster models in 1970s, an edition of 4+2 (four castings of each individual figure, plus two complete sets) was cast by the Morris Singer foundry in 1972 and 1974. It was one of the last major works compeleted ...
Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth was born on 10 January 1903 in Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, the eldest child of Gertrude and Herbert Hepworth. [2] Her father was a civil engineer for the West Riding County Council, who in 1921 advanced to the role of county surveyor. [2]
Her similar wood sculpture from 1961, Single Form (September) (BH 312), in figured walnut, has a circular depression on one face near the top. It is owned by the Tate Gallery and displayed at the Barbara Hepworth Museum in St Ives, Cornwall. Hepworth was working on the walnut sculpture when she received news of Hammarskjöld's death in ...
Each one is inscribed Barbara Hepworth with the date 1969. [4] It is listed as BH 473 in Hepworth's catalogue raisonné. [5] In 1970, one of the casts of Three Obliques (Walk In) was exhibited in the second outdoor sculpture exhibition in Syon Park, London. The sculpture remained on display in the park until 1972. [6]