signed; signed again, inscribed and dated ‘1953’ on the reverse
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Granite Forms, Red, Yellow and Deep Blue, 1953
Provenance:
Gifted by the Artist to Sir Michael Tippett
Exhibition History:
Woking, The Lightbox, 2D:3D – Discover the Art of Sculpture: Sculpture & Sculptors’ Drawings from The Ingram Collection, 1 February – 1 March 2008;
Chichester, Otter Gallery, University of Chichester, Ingram Loan Exhibition, March – April 2012;
London, RCA, A Perfect Place to Grow, 16 November 2012 – 3 January 2013;
Woking, The Lightbox, Landscapes of the Mind, 1 January – 28 February 2013;
Woking, The Lightbox, The Road to Abstraction, 21 May – 24 July 2016;
Kendal, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Land | Sea | Life: A British Art Collection, 20 October 2017 – 17 February 2018;
Berwick-upon-Tweed, Berwick Visual Arts (Granary Gallery), Spirited – Women Artists from The Ingram Collection, 26 May – 13 October 2018;
London, Royal Society of Sculptors, Parallel Lines: Sculpture and Drawing, 13 May – 13 July 2019;
Hull, Ferens Art Gallery, Reflection: British Art in an Age of Change, 17 August 2019 – 5 January 2020;
Woking, The Lightbox, Redressing the Balance: Women Artists from The Ingram Collection, 11 August – 20 September 2020;
Wakefield, The Hepworth Wakefield, Barbara Hepworth: Art and Life, 21 May 2021 – 27 February 2022 then touring to Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, April – October 2022
Literature:
A. Bowness, Barbara Hepworth drawings from a Sculptor’s Landscape, London, 1966 (illustrated pl. 36)
Barbara Hepworth was one of very few women artists to achieve international prominence in the twentieth century. She is widely regarded as one of the most famous pioneers of abstraction in British art history. She had studied at Leeds School of Art, where she met Henry Moore, and the two sculptors developed a friendly rivalry which was to last throughout their lifetime. During her travels she encountered leading European Modernists such as Brâncusi, Arp and Picasso. Their influence can be seen in this work. She moved to St Ives in 1949, where she was to live until her death in 1975.
