Sotheby’s will offer two highly important sculptures by Barbara Hepworth at its Modern and Post-War British Art Evening Auction on June 13 in London.Rarely exhibited and never before offered at auction, “Quiet Form” and “Forms in Movement (Galliard)” are being sold on behalf of Wakefield Girls’ High School, where Hepworth was educated.Throughout her career, Hepworth frequently acknowledged how much she owed to her school and how integral it had been to the blossoming of her career.According to John McLeod, spokesman for the Governors of Wakefield Grammar School Foundation, Hepworth was encouraged by her headmistress, Miss McCroben, to pursue her dreams.The marble sculpture “Quiet Form” (1973), presented by the school to then Headmistress Miss Margaret Knott on the occasion of her retirement in 1973, is being offered with an estimate of £500,000-700,000.“Forms in Movement (Galliard)” (1956), a copper sculpture sold to the school for the opening of its new Gymnasium in 1959, carries an estimate of £250,000-350,000Frances Christie, Head of Sotheby’s Modern & Post-War British Art said: “We are thrilled to be offering two beautiful objects with such a great story of personal importance to one of the giants of 20th-century art.”“Hepworth is the only British female artist to have two galleries dedicated to her, and following a hugely successful retrospective at the Tate Britain last year, the appetite for the very best examples of her work has never been stronger.”
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