Reclining Figure
Date
(1933)
Artist
Barbara Hepworth, British, b. Wakefield, England, 1903–1975
Provenance
The Artist, Cornwall, 1932-33
Alexander J. McNeill Reid, London, by 1934-through at least 1954
Gimpel Fils, London, to 14 October 1957
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 14 October 1957-17 May 1966
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Exhibition History
ALEX REID & LEFEVRE GALLERY, London. "Barbara Hepworth-Ben Nicholson," 23 October-14 November 1933, no. 2.
ABSTRACTION-CREATION, Paris. "Art nonfiguratif," 1934, ill. p. 23.
WAKEFIELD CITY ART GALLERY, England. "Barbara Hepworth Sculpture and Drawings," 19 May-7 July 1951, no. 9, ill. TOUR: YORK CITY ART GALLERY, 14 July-12 August; MANCHESTER CITY ART GALLERY, 24 September-21 October.
WHITECHAPEL ART GALLERY, London. "Barbara Hepworth," 8 April-6 June 1954, no. 19, ill.
TATE GALLERY, London. "Barbara Hepworth," 3 April-19 May 1958, no. 14, ill.
SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, New York. "Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection," 3 October 1962-6 January 1963, no. 204.
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND ART GALLERY, College Park. "Women Artists in Washington Collections," 18 January-25 February 1979, no. 33, ill.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Barbara Hepworth from the Museum Collection," 21 April-19 July 1981, no cat.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Direct Carving in Modern Sculpture: Selections from the Museum's Collection," 6 October-27 November 1983, checklist no. 19.
ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO, Toronto. "Barbara Hepworth: A Retrospective," 18 May-7 August 1995, no. 12, ill. p. 27.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Marvelous Objects: Surrealist Sculpture from Paris to New York," 29 October 2015-15 February 2016, fig. 61, color ill. p. 64; p. 185.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institiution, Washington, DC. "Put It This Way: (Re)Visions of the Hirshhorn Collection," 24 June 2022-16 July 2023, no cat.
Published References
GAUNT, WILLIAM. "An Adventure in Modern Art: In Search of the Absolute," Studio 6 (November 1933), ill. p. 271.
READ, HERBERT. Art Now, 1st edition (London: Faber & Faber, 1933), p. 24, pl. 86, between pp. 96-97.
READ, HERBERT, ed. Unit One: The Modern Movement in English Architecture, Painting and Sculpture (London: Cassell, 1934), pl. IV, p. 23 (Collection Alexander Reid).
GIBSON, WILLIAM. Barbara Hepworth (London: Faber & Faber, 1946), p. 18.
SELIGMAN, KURT. "Simplicity in Art," Magazine of Art 44/3 (March 1951), ill. p. 106.
READ, HERBERT. Barbara Hepworth: Carvings and Drawings (London: Lund & Humphries, 1952), ills. 28 a, b.
HERON, PATRICK. "Barbara Hepworth--Carver," Arts Digest 29/15 (1 May 1955), p. 9, ill. p. 8.
HODIN, J. P. Barbara Hepworth (New York: David McKay, 1961), ill. 44.
HAMMACHER, A. M. The Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1968), ill. in the picture of artist's studio.
UNSIGNED. Abstraction, création, art non-figuratif (New York: Arno Press, 1968), ill. p. 23.
HEPWORTH, BARBARA. A Pictorial Autobiography (New York and Washington, DC: Praeger, 1970), ill. 66, p. 26.
CUSICK, NANCY. "3 in Washington, DC," Women Artists News 7/3 (Fall 1981), ill. p. 9.
ZILCZER, JUDITH. "The Theory of Direct Carving in Modern Sculpture," Oxford Art Journal 4/2 (November 1981), fig. 4.
THISTLEWOOD, DAVID, ed. Barbara Hepworth Reconsidered (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press and Tate Gallery Liverpool, 1996), fig. 14, p. 63.
AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 95, p. 113.
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School
British Modernist Sculpture
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Accession Number
66.2442
Type
Sculpture
Medium
Alabaster on marble base
Dimensions
8 1/8 × 12 1/8 × 6 3/8 in. (20.6 × 30.7 × 16.2 cm)
