Horizontal Form

Contemporary Art

1968

Barbara Hepworth
English, 1903-1975

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Barbara Hepworth
Title: Horizontal Form
Place: England (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1968
Medium: Bronze
Edition: 8 of 9, plus 1 artist's proof
Dimensions: Including base: 31.5 × 47 cm (12 7/16 × 18 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: Promised gift of Thomas and Annelise Lawson
Reference Number: Obj: 273054

Gimpel Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, exh. cat. (New York: Gimpel Gallery, 1969), n.p., cat. 22 (ill.) (another edition).
Gimpel Fils, Sculpture and Reliefs, exh. cat. (London: Gimpel Fils, 1969), n.p., cat. 24 (ill.) (another edition).
Adrian Stokes, Barbara Hepworth; Recent Work: Sculpture, Paintings, Prints, exh. cat. (London: Marlborough, 1969), 7, cat. 14, 22 (ill.)
Alan Bowness, ed., The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth, 1960-69, First edition (London: Lund Humphries, 1971), 47 (ill.), cat. 468, 221 (another edition).
Barbara Hepworth, A Pictorial Autobiography (London: Tate Gallery Publishing, 1985), 124, cat. 337 (ill) (another edition).
Peter Davies, Marjorie Parr: Chelsea and St Ives Art Dealer (Abertillery, Wales: Old Bakehouse, 2008), 27 (color ill.) (another edition).

New York, Gimpel Gallery, First Exhibition: Collector’s Choice, Mar. 19–Apr. 5, 1969, no cat. (another edition).
St. Ives, Marjorie Parr Gallery, May 1969, no cat. (another edition).
New York, Gimpel Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, Apr. 8–May 3, 1969, cat. 22 (another edition).
London, Gimpel Fils, Sculpture and Reliefs, June 24 - Aug. 30 1969, cat. 24 (another edition).

The artist; sold to Gillian Raffles, the Mercury Gallery, London, Mar./Apr. 1969 [email from the Barbara Hepworth Estate, Apr. 25, 20024, copy in curatorial object file]. Sold Christie’s, London, Nov. 29, 1988, lot 235, to Gimpel Fils, London, and the New Art Centre, London; sold through the New Art Centre, London, to Annelise and Thomas Lawson, Fox Point, WI and later Chicago, May 19, 1989; offered to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2024.

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