''Sea Form (Atlantic)'' (BH 362) is a 1964 bronze sculpture by English artist Barbara Hepworth. It measures . The sculpture comprises a single large curved free-standing form, similar to a shield, with contrasting rough and smooth surfaces with brown or green patination, and five pierced apertures that resemble holes in a sea shell. Like Hepworth's '' Single Form'' (1961), it was based on

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standing stones at Chûn Castle

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site in West Cornwall. It was part of a series of sculptures that took inspiration from the cliffs and caves on the coastline near

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on the

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. Other works in the series include '' Curved Form (Bryher)'' (1961), '' Oval Form (Trezion)'' (1961–63) and '' Rock Form (Porthcurno)'' (1964). It was cast at the

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foundry in London in 1964, in an edition of 6+1 (six for sale, and one artist's copy). A cast was exhibited at the

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sculpture exhibition in 1966. Three of the casts are now on display in public collections, and three held by private collectors. * Cast 1/6 was bought through Gimpel Fils by

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and his wife Lillian Clark, and donated to the

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and Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, where it had been held since 1965. * Cast 2/6 was sold through the Marlborough Gerson Gallery in 1968 to Hunt Food and Industries. * Cast 3/6 was sold through Gimpel Fils in 1967 to the City of Norwich Museum, with funding from the

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and the

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, and it remains on display in Norfolk. * Cast 4/6 was sold through Marlborough Gerson Gallery to

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, and is displayed in the

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near

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, from the

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collection where it is installed on the lawn. () * Cast 5/6 was sold to J.G. Davies in May 1968. * Cast 6/6 was sold through Gimpel Fils in 1966 to Mr & Mrs Samuel G. Rautbord of Chicago; it was sold at Christie's in 1998, exhibited at Chatsworth House in 2015, and sold for £3.5m at Christie's in 2016. File:Barbara Hepworth Sea Form Atlantic Norwich.JPG, Norwich File:Dallas Museum of Art Sculpture Garden Dallas TX 2013-06-08 011.jpg, Dallas

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"Hepworth sculpture up for grabs"
Wakefield Express, 9 November 2000
''Sea Form (Atlantic)''
barbarahepworth.org.uk
Public Sculpture of Staffordshire and the Black Country
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Beyond Limits: The Landscape of British Sculpture 1950–2015, Sotheby's, September–October 2016
Sea Form (Atlantic)
Christie's, 30 June 2016
Sea Form (Atlantic) at Lynden Sculpture Garden
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Sea Form (Atlantic) at Lynden Sculpture Garden
Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
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Sea Form (Atlantic)
Dallas Museum of Art
Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art: How Stanley Marcus, Al Meadows, and James and Lillian Clark Shaped a Collection
Leigh Arnold, Dallas Museum of Art
Sea Form (Atlantic)
Recording Archive for Public Sculpture in Norfolk & Suffolk
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p. 21, Tate Gallery
Dame Barbara Hepworth, Volume of sculpture records, 1964
p. 22, Tate Gallery {{MilwaukeePublicArt, state=collapsed 1964 sculptures Outdoor sculptures in Milwaukee Bronze sculptures in Wisconsin Abstract sculptures in Wisconsin 1960s establishments in Wisconsin