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Nude threading a needle
Details
Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)
Nude threading a needle
signed and dated 'Barbara Hepworth Dec 1947' (lower right)
pencil
13.5/8 x 9¾ in. (34.7 x 24.8 cm.)
Sold with a letter from the artist on Trewyn Studio, St Ives, Cornwall writing paper to the original owner, Mr Ward Jackson, Polruan, Cornwall.
Nude threading a needle
signed and dated 'Barbara Hepworth Dec 1947' (lower right)
pencil
13.5/8 x 9¾ in. (34.7 x 24.8 cm.)
Sold with a letter from the artist on Trewyn Studio, St Ives, Cornwall writing paper to the original owner, Mr Ward Jackson, Polruan, Cornwall.
Provenance
Mr Ward Jackson, Cornwall.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 23 May 1975, lot 51, where purchased by the present owner.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 23 May 1975, lot 51, where purchased by the present owner.
Exhibited
London, Lefevre Gallery, Paintings by Barbara Hepworth; Paintings by L.S. Lowry, April 1948, one of nos 32-36.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
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