Live Auction 15480Modern British Art Day Sale
Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)
Lot 117 PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF DEREK FAIRHEAD

Derek Fairhead had a long career working for Westward Television from the 1950s to the 1980s. During that time he produced and directed a series of programs covering the music and the arts, including the 1967 documentary about Bernard Leach and Barbara Hepworth. He and Hepworth developed a mutual respect which is illustrated in their exchange of personal letters. He went on to purchase Sculpture with Colour directly from Hepworth, and it has remained in the family since.

Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)

Sculpture with Colour

Closed20 June 2018

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GBP 156,250

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Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)
Sculpture with Colour
signed with initials, numbered and dated 'BH 8/9/1940' (lower right edge of the base) and inscribed with the Morris Singer studio stamp and dated again 'M/S 1968' (lower left edge of the base)
polished and painted bronze, with strings, on a bronze base
6 in. (15.2 cm.) wide, including base
Conceived in 1940 and cast in 1968.
This work is recorded as BH 459.
To be sold with two letters from Barbara Hepworth to Derek Fairhead, dated February 1969 and October 1973.

Acquired directly from the artist by Derek Fairhead, 1969, and by descent.

Specialist note

We are grateful to Dr Sophie Bowness for her assistance with the cataloguing apparatus for this work. Dr Sophie Bowness is preparing the revised catalogue raisonné of Hepworth’s sculpture.