Vente aux enchères en direct 15480Modern British Art Day Sale
Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)
Lot 189MODERNISM TO ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM: WORKS FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION

Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)

Mincarlo

Fermé20 June 2018

Prix réalisé

GBP 137,500

Considering selling a similar item?

Discover its value with a complimentary estimate from our specialists.

Plus d'informations

Comment vendre

Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)
Mincarlo
numbered '1/9' (on the base)
polished bronze and string
13½ in. (34.3 cm.) high, including slate base
Conceived and cast in 1971 in St Ives.
This work is recorded as BH 526.

Mrs Enid Bliss Morris [later Mrs Frame-Thomson], USA, May 1971.
Her sale; Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London, 10 November 1976, lot 152.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby’s, London, 1 December 1999, lot 63.

Note du spécialiste

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.


'I arranged in my studio, opposite my bed, a mirror which reflects the rising morning sun – for half an hour with incredible splendour this moving & focused source of light travels slowly over the nine sculptures in its path – Hollows & piercings, forms within forms, strings & features, volume & space are animated to a new vibration of life & every form & contour, known so intimately by my hands, reveals its proper significance'
(Barbara Hepworth letter to Herbert Read, January 1953 in Sophie Bowness, Barbara Hepworth: The Sculptor in the Studio, London, 2017, p. 28)