December Forms (from Opposing Forms series) (1975)

Barbara Hepworth

lithograph

Brighton & Hove Museums (Brighton Museum & Art Gallery and Hove Museum of Creativity)

December Forms (from Opposing Forms series) (1975)

Classification:

Materials:

Paper, Ink

Physical Object Description:

Signed lower right: Barbara Hepworth, numbered lower left: 18/60

Technique:

Lithograph

Dimensions:

77.5 x 58 cm

Credit:

Donated by Eric and Jean Cass through the Contemporary Art Society, 2012

Scheme:

Eric and Jean Cass Gift (2010 - 2012)

Ownership history:

The Curwen Studio, London; purchased by Eric and Jean Cass from the City Art Gallery, Guildford, Surrey, 1975; by whom gifted to the Contemporary Art Society, 2012; presented to Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton and Hove, 2012

Relationship:

Curwen Gallery, London City Art Gallery, Guildford The Curwen Studio Brighton & Hove Museums (Brighton Museum & Art Gallery and Hove Museum of Creativity) Eric and Jean Cass Eric Victor Cass

This original lithograph, signed and inscribed, is number 18 out of an edition of 60 made by the artist for The Curwen Studio in 1975, four years after the lithograph Delos (1971) edition 9/60, also from the Eric and Jean Cass collection and now in Brighton Art Gallery, but also forms one of 9 screenprints from The Aegean Suite (sets at Tate and The Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, edition not numbered). They were purchased by the Cass's together and catalogued (in 2003, possibly erroneously and therefore mistitled) as if a pair. An identical motif, called December Forms (1970) forms part of a screenprint series of 12, not numbered (sets at Tate and The Pier Arts Centre, Stromness) called Opposing Forms.

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