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Dame Barbara Hepworth
Study for Lisa (Hands to Face), 1949
pencil and oil on board
45.7 x 25.4 cm; 18 x 10 in
JC216
Barbara Hepworth © Bowness
Provenance
The artist.Mr and Mrs F.E. Halliday.
Private Collection, U.K.
Offer Waterman & Co, from where purchased, April 2015.
Exhibitions
London, Lefevre Gallery, New Sculpture and Drawings by Barbara Hepworth, February 1950, no. 41.Venice, XXV Biennale, British Pavilion, An Exhibition of Works by John Constable, Matthew Smith and Barbara Hepworth, British Council, Summer 1950, no. 119.
Wakefield, City Art Gallery, Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture and Drawings, Festival of Britain, May - July 1951, no. 90: this exhibition toured to York, City Art Gallery, July - August 1951; Manchester, City Art Gallery, September - October 1951.
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, Retrospective Exhibition 1927-1954, April - June 1954, no. 129.
St Ives, Parish Church, Exhibition on the Occasion of the Conferment of the Honorary Freedom of the Borough of St Ives on Bernard Leach and Barbara Hepworth, September - October 1968.
Plymouth, City Art Gallery, Barbara Hepworth, June - August 1970, no. 69.
Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, Horizons: Kettle's Yard at Jerwood Gallery, September 2015 - January 2016.
London, Business Design Centre, London Art Fair, Coast, January 2016.
Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, Coast, April - July 2016.
Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, Century: 100 Modern British Artists, October 2016 - January 2017.
Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, Jerwood Collection: 25 Years, January - April 2018.
Bristol, Royal West of England Academy, In Relation: Nine Couples who Transformed Modern British Art, June – September 2018.
London, Dickinson at Frieze Art Fair, Formed from Nature: Barbara Hepworth, October 2018.
London, Close: Drawn Portraits, Drawing Room London, Nov 2018 - Feb 2019.
Birmingham, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Cornwall as Crucible: Modernity and Internationalism in Mid-Century Britain, February - May 2020.
Welbeck, Harley Gallery, A Curator's Choice, May-August 2021.
East Sussex, Towner Eastbourne, Drawing the Unspeakable, 5 Oct 2024 - 27 April 2025.