Barbara Hepworth 1903-1975
Sculpture with Colour, 1940
polished bronze, with pigment and strings, on a bronze base
width 6 in
width 15.2 cm, including base
width 15.2 cm, including base
signed with initials, dated and numbered 'B.H. / 2/9 / 1940' (lower right edge of the base), inscribed with foundry mark and dated again 'M/S / 1968' (lower left edge of the base)
Conceived in 1940, and cast in 1968 by Morris Singer Foundry, London in an edition of 9, plus an artist's cast.
BH 459
Conceived in 1940, and cast in 1968 by Morris Singer Foundry, London in an edition of 9, plus an artist's cast.
BH 459
Provenance
Mercury Gallery, LondonPrivate Collection, USA, purchased from the above in 1969
Private Collection, acquired from the above in May 2020
Offer Waterman, London, acquired 2022
Literature
J.P. Hodin, Barbara Hepworth, London, 1961, n.p., no. 117, plaster version illustrated.A. Bowness, The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960-69, London, 1971, p. 46, no. 459.
Exhibition catalogue, The Non-Objective World 1914-1955, London, Annely Juda Fine Art, 1973, p. 89, no. 53, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth, 1903-1975: 50 sculptures from 1935 to 1970, London, Gimpel Fils, 1975, n.p., no. 6, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Hepworth, New York, Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, 1977, n.p., no 14, another cast illustrated.
S. Bowness (ed.), Barbara Hepworth The Plasters: The Gift to Wakefield, Farnham, 2011, pp. 36, 47, 104, no. 3, fig, 7, plaster cast and another cast illustrated.
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