Inv. n°: CL41

Curved form (Orpheus)

Signed and dated 'Barbara Hepworth 1956' lower left; signature, title, dimensions and date verso. Modernism, Abstract Art.

h. 76.2 x w. 71.1 cm

1956

Oil, pencil on panel

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Provenance

  • A. M. Hammacher, Brussels
  • Private Collection, Brussels
  • Acquired at Connaught Brown, London, 2016

Publications

  • L. Frescoboldi, "The Kingdom of Female Artists, in the Home of Christian Levett", Inside Florence, A Tale of Palazzi and Botteghe, Marsilio Arte, 2024
  • A. M. Hammacher, Barbara Hepworth, 1958, pl. 32
  • J. P. Hodin, B. Hepworth, Barbara Hepworth, Neuchâtel, 1961, ref. k (ill.)
  • A. Bowness, Barbara Hepworth: Drawings from a Sculptor’s Landscape, Cory Adams & Mackay, 1966, pl. 40
  • A. M. Hammacher, Barbara Hepworth, London, 1968/1987, ill. 84, p.113
  • C. Macel (Dir.), Elles font l'abstraction, Éditions du Centre Pompidou, 2021, p. 126 and 332
  • C. Macel (Dir.), Women in Abstraction, Éditions du Centre Pompidou, 2021
  • J. Samet, "Living in a Female Body: Contemporary Art by Women and the Levett Collection", FAMM - Female Artists of the Mougins Museum, France, Merrell and FAMM, January 2025, p.198

Exhibitions

  • Recent Works by Barbara Hepworth, Gimpel Fils, London, UK
  • Elles font l'abstraction. Une autre histoire de l'abstraction au 20e siècle, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 5th May 2021 — 23rd August 2021
  • Women in Abstraction, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain, 22nd September 2021 — 27th February 2022

© Barbara Hepworth © Bowness

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