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Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)

Pierced Form (Amulet)

Closed20 June 2018

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Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)
Pierced Form (Amulet)
signed, numbered, dated and stamped with foundry mark 'Barbara Hepworth 1962 9/9 Morris/Singer/FOUNDERS/LONDON' (on the reverse at the base edge)
bronze with a green patina
12 in. (30.5 cm.) high, including base
Conceived in 1962 and cast in an edition of 9, plus an artist's cast.
This work is recorded as BH 316.

with Gimpel Fils, London, where purchased by E.C. Bigins in July 1964.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 10 November 1976, lot 150, where purchased by the present owner.

H. Read, A Concise History of Modern Sculpture, London, 1964.
Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth Sculpture and Drawings, London, Gimpel Fils, 1964, n.p., no. 12, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth, Basel, Kunsthalle, 1965, n.p., no. 24, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth, Turin, Galeria Civic d'Arte Moderna, 1965, pp. 80-81, no. 32, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Barbara Hepworth, London, Tate Gallery, 1968, p. 69, no. 124, another cast illustrated
A. Bowness, The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960-69, London, 1971, p. 33, no. 316, pl. 62, another cast illustrated.
M. Gale and C. Stephens, Barbara Hepworth: Works in the Tate Collection and the Barbara Hepworth Museum St Ives, London, 2004, p. 226, another cast.
S. Bowness (ed.), Barbara Hepworth The Plasters: The Gift to Wakefield, Farnham, 2011, pp. 130-131, no. 18, figs 23-24, plaster and another cast illustrated.

Zurich, Gimpel-Hanover Galerie, Barbara Hepworth Sculpture and Drawings, November 1963, no. 12, another cast exhibited.
London, Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth Sculpture and Drawings, June 1964, no. 12, another cast exhibited.
Copenhagen, British Council, Kunstforeningen, Barbara Hepworth, September - October 1964, no. 27, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to Stockholm, Moderna Museet, November - December 1964; Helsinki, Ateneum, January - February 1965; and Oslo, Kunstnernes Hus, March 1965.
Otterlo, Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Barbara Hepworth, May - July 1965, no. 35: this exhibition travelled to Basel, Kunsthalle, September - October 1965; Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, October - November 1965, no. 32; Karlsruhe, Badischer Kunstverein, February - March 1966; and Essen, Museum Folkwang, April - June 1966.
Turin, British Council, Galleria Civica D’Arte Moderna, Barbara Hepworth, October - November 1965, no. 32, another cast exhibited.
Montreal, Expo 67, The Genius of Britain, 1967, another cast exhibited, catalogue not traced.
London, Tate Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, April - May 1968, no. 124, another cast exhibited.
St Ives, Public Library, St Ives Council, Barbara Hepworth (commemorating the Honorary Freedom of St Ives, 1968), September 1968, ex-catalogue, plaster cast exhibited.

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Specialist note

Pierced Form (Amulet), 1962, prompted Hepworth to make Pierced Form the following year, a larger marble sculpture now in the Collection of Tate, London. Carved from Pentelicon marble, Pierced Form stands at almost 50 inches high and echoes the form of the smaller bronze which inspired it, including the shaped base. 'The subtitle 'amulet', meaning a talisman or charm, was one which Hepworth used in the preceding year for the small bronzes Reclining Solitary Form (Amulet), 1961 (BH 307) and Upright Solitary Form (Amulet), 1961 (BH 308).

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.

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