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Barbara Hepworth
Torso II (Torcello)1958

Not on view
Abstract bronze sculpture with irregular trapezoidal form, heavily textured surface in warm amber and silver-gray tones, mounted on a flat rectangular base
Bronze sculpture, abstract biomorphic upright form tapering toward the base, mounted on a rectangular metal plinth. Warm brown patina with textured, pitted surface and a shallow oval hollow near the top edge.
Bronze sculpture with an abstract biomorphic form, wider at the top and tapering toward the base, with a dark oval void near the upper left edge; warm brown patina with textured, pitted surface, mounted on a flat rectangular base.
Artist or Maker
Barbara Hepworth
England, 1903-1975
Title
Torso II (Torcello)
Place Made
England
Date Made
1958
Medium
Bronze, cast number 1/6
Dimensions
36 × 19 × 13 in. (91.44 × 48.26 × 33.02 cm)
Credit Line
Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof
Accession Number
M.2005.70.36
Classification
Sculpture
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Provenance
[Weintraub Gallery, New York, sold 1985 to]; Janice and Henri Lazarof, Los Angeles, partial, fractional and promised gift 2005 to; LACMA.
Selected Bibliography
  • Barron, Stephanie. Envisioning Modernism: The Janice and Henri Lazarof Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2012.