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Photograph by Michael Fredericks
Sea Forms (From the suite "12 Lithographs by Barbara Hepworth")
Photograph by Michael Fredericks
Copyright held by Hepworth Estate. contact sophie@barbarahepworth.org.uk 2010 contact Sophie Bowness, 14 AShchurch Grove,London, W12 9BT, sbowness@globalnet.co.uk

Sea Forms (From the suite "12 Lithographs by Barbara Hepworth")

Artist Dame Barbara Hepworth British, 1903 - 1975
Printer The Curwen Studio British, 1863- present
Date1969
MediumLithograph, handmade wove paper with embossing
DimensionsSheet: 23 x 32 in. (58.4 x 81.3 cm)
Frame Dimensions: 31 x 41 in. (78.7 x 104.1 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineGift to The Murray Collection in memory of Terry A. Murray
Object number1991.2.10
On View
Not on view
Collections
  • Modern and Contemporary Art
  • Works on Paper
SignedSigned LR, cursive, in pencil: "Barbara Hepworth,"
InscribedNumbered LL in pencil: "33/60".
MarkingsImpressed block letters "CP" conjoined, to the left of the edition number, for Curwen Prints or Press. According to the Tate Gallery catalogue of their works by Hepworth, Stanley Jones of Curwen Studios started a 'pilot scheme' in a studio in St. Ives (Cornwall) in 1958 and in late 1968 spent 2 weeks working with Barbara Hepworth creating the suite of 12 lithographs to which this print belongs.
DescriptionPrinted in relief with six raised embossed diagonals parallel across the image. Three pairs are narrow and the others make wider strips that create 'compartments' in the print. Hepworth, primarily known for her sculpture, is giving a third dimension to the print, sculpting the lithograph stone and the paper in turn. The print has scattered horizontal and vertical lines printed in black in addition to a circle with bright yellow in the upper right and a circle with black shading in the center of the left side of the image.

Modern museum oak frame with cream-colored mat. Framed with plate mark under mat (see condition notes).Exhibition History"Art of the Twentieth Century: Selections from the Permanent Collection," Charles R. Wood Gallery, The Hyde Collection, Dec. 4, 1993 - Feb. 20, 1994.

"Selections from the Murray Collection," Hoopes Gallery, The Hyde Collection, Oct. 14, 2004 - May 8, 2005.

"Divided by a Common Language? British and American Works from the Murray Collection," Hoopes Gallery, The Hyde Collection, Nov. 28, 2009 - March 28, 2010.

“Modern and Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection”, Feibes & Schmitt Gallery, The Hyde Collection, December 28, 2017 – April 30, 2018

"Women Modernists". Feibes & Schmitt Gallery, The Hyde Collection, January 19, 2019 - May 12, 2019ProvenanceNew York, NY, Jane S. Murray
1991, Glens Falls, NY, The Hyde Collection Trust