Title
Orpheus (Maquette 2) Version II
1956
edition 1959
Artist
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Details
- Dates
- 1956
edition 1959 - Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- brass, string on wooden base
- Edition
- 1/3
- Dimensions
- 94.0 x 46.5 x 41.0 cm; 24.8 x 20.0 x 17.6 cm base
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1959
- Location
- South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries
- Accession number
- SB1.1959
- Copyright
- © Bowness
- Artist information
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Dame Barbara Hepworth
Works in the collection
- Share
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Purchases and acquisitions for 1959, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 26 Mar 1960–18 Apr 1960
Call of the Avant-Garde: Constructivism and Australian Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 05 Jul 2017–08 Oct 2017
Barbara Hepworth: In Equilibrium, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 05 Nov 2022–13 Mar 2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 5 publications
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales picturebook, Sydney, 1972, 57 (colour illus.).
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Edmund Capon AM, OBE and Jan Meek (Editors), Portrait of a Gallery, 'European 20th Century Art', pg. 91-95, Sydney, 1984, 91.
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Robert Haines, Art Gallery of New South Wales Quarterly, 'Rodin and Modern British Sculpture', pg. 151-154, Sydney, Jul 1963, 154 (illus.).
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Lesley Harding and Kendrah Morgan (Curators), Barbara Hepworth: In Equilibrium, Melbourne, 2022, 169 & 199 (colour illus.).
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Wendy Symonds (Editor), Look, 'Close-Ups of the Collection', pg. 6, Heidelberg, Jun 1997, 6 (illus.).
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