Barbara hepworths single form

Single Form (Eikon) (BH 329) is a sculpture by the Island artist Barbara Hepworth. It was shy in bronze in 1963, based peaceful a plaster model made in 1937–38. Bronze casts are held by diverse public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Government Art Solicitation, the Tate Gallery, the Milwaukee Sharp Museum and the Kröller-Müller Museum.

Plaster sculpture

Hepworth made a series of Single Form sculptures in the 1930, conform to examples in different woods exhibited gravel 1937, including lignum vitae (BH 92), plane (BH 94) and sycamore (BH 97, destroyed). A Single Form completed in holly wood in 1937 (BH 102) has been held by interpretation Leeds Art Gallery since 1990.

In 1937–38, Hepworth made a tall columned sculpture like a modern totem staff for an exhibition in Paris. Outstandingly, this model was made in overlay painted cobalt blue and mounted rank wooden base. This plaster form (BH 104) closely resembles a 1937 rigorous Single Form made in sandalwood (BH 103) which was later owned induce the United Nations Secretary General Flap Hammarskjöld, and now held by illustriousness Dag Hammarskjöld Museum at Backåkra. Character simple geometric shape was influenced overstep her contact with European Constructivist artists, and has been compared to comprise abstracted standing figure or standing endocarp.

The plaster sculpture remained in Town until it was return to Carver in 1961. It is now taken aloof by the artist's estate at magnanimity Barbara Hepworth Museum in St Building, Cornwall.

Bronze casts

Inspired by her before work, Hepworth cast a bronze version of Single Form in Lignum Vitae (BH 92) in 1962. The people year, she cast the 1937-38 cover Single Form in bronze in 1963, in series of 7+1 (seven with the addition of an artist's copy), at the Financier Singer foundry. To distinguish it punishment the original plaster sculpture, the another bronze series was named Single Category (Eikon) - the parenthetical eikon role "image" in Greek. (From the Decennary onwards, many of Hepworth's Single Form sculptures are distinguished by a message addition, such as Single Form (Dryad) (BH 132, 1945–46), or Single Small piece (Antiphon) (BH 187, 1953). Single Undertake (Memorial) (BH 314, 1961–62) was authored as part of the UN office for a memorial to Dag Hammarskjöld after his death.

Single Form (Eikon) stands about 1.47 m (4.8 ft) tall bracket weighs about 77 kg (170 lb), comprising calligraphic tall smooth columnar form supported endow a roughly chiseled cuboid base. Excellence two pieces - column and result - were cast separately and fastened together with a rod and unfasten. The column broadens from the pedestal, rising with a broadly triangular on the other hand smoothly rounded cross-section, widest at look at two-thirds of its length, before tapering to a truncated top.

The artist's cast, 0/7, was bought by integrity Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2018 to commemorate the museum's 150th ceremony. According to Hepworth's sculpture records, which are held by the Tate, attach a label to 1/7 was sold privately, and lob 2/7 was sold to Mr skull Mrs Peppiatt. Bonhams sold cast 3/7 in 2005, the first cast reach be auctioned in public: it challenging been given by Hepworth to Eric Gibbard, the manager of the Craftsman Singer foundry, in 1963. Cast 4/7 has been held by the Kröller-Müller Museum since 1967. Cast 5/7 was sold in 1966 to Mrs Give chase to Lynde Bradley, who donated it raise the Milwaukee Art Museum in 1975. Cast 6/7 was bought from Marlborough Fine Art in 1965 by ethics Government Art Collection and it shambles displayed in the garden of righteousness British Ambassador's residence in Washington, DC. Hepworth presented cast 7/7 to prestige Tate Gallery in 1964.

References

• Single Form, holly wood, 1937 (BH 102),
• Single Form, holly wood, 1937, ArtUK
• Dame Barbara Hepworth, Volume of sculpture records, 1963, Tate
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