Summer 1969

Name: DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)
Brand: Summer 1969
Price: 40000.00 GBP
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DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)

Summer 1969

Price Realised GBP 50,000

Closed: 14 Jul 2020

Price Realised GBP 50,000

Closed: 14 Jul 2020

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DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)
Summer 1969
signed and dated 'Barbara Hepworth/1969' (lower right), signed and dated again and inscribed 'Barbara Hepworth/'Summer' 1969' (on the reverse)
acrylic and pencil on board
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.)
Painted in 1969
This work is recorded as D 512.

Marlborough Fine Art, London.
Acquired from the above by Mrs Vaughan Lee in February 1970.
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 9 June 2006, lot 163.
Godson & Coles, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in June 2007.

London, Marlborough Fine Art. Barbara Hepworth: recent work, sculpture, paintings, prints, February - March 1970, ex-catalogue.

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Lot Essay

‘Abstract drawing has always been for me a particularly exciting adventure. First there is only one’s mood; then the surface takes one’s mood in colour and texture; then a line or curve which, made with a pencil on the hard surface of many coats of oil or gouache, has a particular kind of “bite” rather like incising on slate; then one is lost in a new world of a thousand possibilities because the next line in association with the first will have a compulsion about it which will carry one forward into completely unknown territory. […] Suddenly before one’s eyes is a new form which, from the sculptor’s point of view, free as it is from the problems of solid material, can be deepened or extended, twisted or flattened, tightened and hardened according to one’s will, as one imbues it with its own special life. The whole process is opposite to that of drawing from life’ (B. Hepworth, quoted in A. Bowness, , London, 1966, pp. 19-20).

We are grateful to Dr Sophie Bowness for her assistance with the cataloguing apparatus for this work. Dr Sophie Bowness and Dr Jenna Lundin Aral are preparing the revised catalogue raisonné of Hepworth’s paintings and drawings.

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