This clay Goose (BH9) was made by the artist, then called in Barbara Skeaping as she was married to the sculptor John (1901-1980) in around 1927 and was shown at their Beaux Arts Gallery, London (shared with William Morgan) exhibition in June 1928 where it was purchased by Ernest Marsh (1863-1945) with the Pottery and Crafts Fund of the Contemporary Art Society for £15.5. A note on page 18 of the Volume of Sculpture Records by Barbara Hepworth with images and held at the Tate (TGA 7247/1) says it was from the collection of a Mrs Cameron. There seems to have also been a series of stone birds, called Ducks in the Hulton Archive (Getty Images) photograph of the couple at their exhibition in 1928 alongside 6 similar pieces to Goose (1927-8). This terracotta version, bought as a craft work of art, was in the 1929-30 CAS touring exhibition at Hanley (Stoke-on-Trent), Leicester, Plymouth and Bristol art galleries and was damaged in transit but repaired and gifted by the CAS to Bristol in 1931. It has since gained notoriety as a fake version was sold to the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds for £3,000 in 2003, now known to be the work of the forger Shaun Greenhalgh.
