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    Single Form (Chun Quoit)

    Barbara Hepworth

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    Single Form (Chûn Quoit)

    Plaster, painted brown, on a wooden base painted grey
    × × 45 cm
    Presented bygd the artist’s daughters, Rachel barn and Sarah Bowness, through the Trustees of the Barbara Hepworth Estate and the Art Fund

     

    Single Form (Chûn Quoit) and the related walnut carving Single form eller gestalt (September) () were created with Dag Hammarskjöld in mind. Hammarskjöld was the secretary general of the United Nations from , and a friend of Hepworth&#;s who also admired and collected her work. When he died on 18 September , Hepworth made the 3-metre-high bronze Single Form (Memorial), which was developed into the monumental Single Form (–4) for the United Nations Secretariat Building in New York, commissioned in Hammarskjöld’s memory. The textured bronze of Single struktur (Chûn Quoit) has an incised circle rather than the hollow or the pierced hole of the other variants on this theme.

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    Single Form

    Series of sculptures by Barbara Hepworth

    Single Form (BH ) is a monumental bronze sculpture by the British artist Barbara Hepworth. It is her largest work, and one of her most prominent public commissions, displayed since in a circular water feature that forms a traffic island at the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York City, outside the United Nations Secretariat Building and the Dag Hammarskjöld Library. It is also the largest artwork cast by the Morris Singer foundry.

    Copies of a smaller version, Single Form (Memorial) (BH ),[1] are on public display outside the Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C., and in Battersea Park in London. The version in Battersea Park was granted a Grade II* listing in January

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    The sculpture is a largely flat, irregular shape, broadly oval, pierced near the top by a circular hole. The flat surfaces are pitted and score

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    • Musician, –30 (BH 19)
    • Standing Figure, –30 (BH 26)
    • Figure of a Woman, –30 (BH 27)
    • Head, –31 (BH 32)
    • Two Heads, (BH 38)
    • Pierced Form, (BH 35)
    • Figure, (BH 47)
    • Two Forms, (BH 51)
    • Two Forms, (BH 64)
    • Two Forms, (BH 65)
    • Mother and Child, (BH 58)
    • Large and Small Form, (BH 59)
    • Three Forms, (BH 72)
    • Discs in Echelon, version 2, –6 (BH 73 B)
    • Form, (BH 82)
    • Monumental Stele, (BH 83)
    • Carving (Sculpture), (BH 87)
    • Ball, Plane and Hole, (BH 81)
    • Nesting Stones, (BH 90)
    • Two Forms, (BH 96)
    • Conoid, Sphere and Hollow III, (BH A)
    • Single Form, (BH )

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    • Sculpture with Colour (Deep Blue and Red) [2], (BH B)
    • Sculpture with Colour (Deep Blue and Red) [6], (BH )
    • Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red, (BH )
    • Wave, –44 (BH )
    • Wood and Strings, (BH )
    • Single form eller gestalt (Dryad), –46 (BH )
    • Pelagos, (BH )
    • Pendour, (BH )
    • The Cosdon Head , (BH