Barbara Hepworth sculpture up for auction at Christie's could sell for up to £6m

By Charlotte McLaughlin, PA Senior Entertainment Reporter
Published 14th Mar 2024, 07:34 BST
An oval-shaped sculpture by the legendary Yorkshire artist Dame Barbara Hepworth is up for sale with a multimillion-pound price tag.

The piece, Sculpture With Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue And Red, created in March 1944, is part of Christie's Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale.

The auction house estimates it will fetch between £2.2 million and £3.2 million.

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Other works by the Wakefield-born artist going under the hammer are the Landscape Sculpture, which looks like a stringed instrument, the brass sculpture Maquette For Winged Figure, and an oil and pencil work called Atlantic Form, Blue.

A sculpture by Dame Barbara Hepworth, Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red, 1943, estimate £2,200,00-3,200,000, during a preview for the forthcoming Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale, at Christie's in London. Photo credit: James Manning/PA WireA sculpture by Dame Barbara Hepworth, Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red, 1943, estimate £2,200,00-3,200,000, during a preview for the forthcoming Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale, at Christie's in London. Photo credit: James Manning/PA Wire
A sculpture by Dame Barbara Hepworth, Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red, 1943, estimate £2,200,00-3,200,000, during a preview for the forthcoming Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale, at Christie's in London. Photo credit: James Manning/PA Wire

They are being sold at guide prices ranging from £100,000 to £1 million.

At a previous sale at Christie's in New York in 2021, the late sculptor's work Parent II fetched 7.1 million US dollars (£6.07 million).

Also up for sale is Lynn Chadwick's metallic sculpture, Sitting Couple On Bench, which was conceived in 1990 and cast in 2001, and is estimated to go for between £1.2 million and £1.8 million.

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