Barbara Hepworth catalogue raisonne. (Deluxe edition with original signed screenprint)

HODIN, J. P. Barbara Hepworth. Neuchatel, Switzerland : Editions du Griffon, 1961. Quarto, lettered cloth in dustjacket (light edge wear), pp. 172, illustrated. The French language edition, printed in Switzerland.

Together with: The complete sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960 – 69. Edited by Alan Bowness. New York : Praeger, 1971. Quarto, gilt-decorated cloth in illustrated dustjacket (light edge wear), housed in original publisher’s slipcase, light tape marks to endpapers, pp. 222. The deluxe edition, limited to 150 numbered copies, with an original signed Barbara Hepworth screen print Winter Solstice with tissue guard bound in. Of the deluxe edition, 75 copies appeared under the London imprint of Lund Humphries and 75 copies under the New York imprint of Praeger, otherwise identical.

These two volumes constitute the definitive reference on Barbara Hepworth’s sculpture. Rare in the deluxe format of the Bowness publication (no deluxe edition was published for the earlier Hodin volume).