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BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)
Elegy III
signed, dated and numbered ‘Barbara Hepworth 1966 3/6’ (on the top of the base); inscribed with foundry mark ‘Morris Singer Founders London’ (on the back of the base)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 55 in. (139.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1966 and cast in 1967
Provenance
Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., London (acquired from the artist, June 1968).
Marlborough-Godard Gallery, Toronto (acquired from the above).
Private collection, Canada (acquired from the above, 1976, until at least 1995).
Haunch of Venison, London.
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 2003.
Literature
A. Bowness, ed., The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960-1969, London, 1971, no. 429 (another cast illustrated, pl. 158).
S. Bowness, ed., Barbara Hepworth The Plasters, the Gift to Wakefield, London, 2011, p. 146, no. 26 (plaster illustrated in color, p. 147; other casts illustrated in situ at The Morris Singer foundry, p. 56, pl. 50).
Exhibited
London, Tate Gallery, Barbara Hepworth April-May 1968, pp. 49 and 61, no. 169 (another cast illustrated in situ at the Rietveld Pavilion, p. 48; titled Hollow Form with Color).
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., Recent Acquisitions, July-August 1968, no. 17 (illustrated).
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Post Lot Text
Elegy III is included as BH 429 in the Hepworth catalogue raisonné of sculptures being revised by Dr. Sophie Bowness.