'Single Form (Memorial)', on southern side of boating lake, Battersea Park, London Borough of Wandsworth

'Single Form (Memorial)', executed October 1961-February 1962 by Barbara Hepworth. This edition was cast in October 1963-June 1964 for erection at Battersea Park. Founder: Morris Singer Ltd.

MATERIALS: the sculpture is cast in bronze and sits upon a bronze self-base. A sandstone raked block fixed with an inscribed bronze plaque is centrally set in front of the sculpture and self-base.

DESCRIPTION: 'Single Form (Memorial)', is a freestanding, smooth-edged, flattened ovoid abstract form with a rippled surface, and a circular aperture off-centre near its head. It is set on grass by the southern edge of Battersea Park boating lake. The sculpture measures 3.12m in height by 2m in width and 25.4cm in depth. It sits upon a shallow rectangular self-base measuring 8cm in height by 1.22m in width and 91cm in depth.

The self-base, integral to the sculpture, is signed and dated on its upper surface, at the rear north-western face of the sculpture, by Hepworth in a handwritten style: Barbara Hepworth/Oct 1961-Feb 1962. A founder's mark is incised below on the rear north-western face, of the self-base: Morris/Singer.

A rectangular raked block and fixed plaque, centrally set in front of the southern face of the sculpture, is inscribed in white capital letters:

SINGLE FORM/1961-62/DEDICATED TO/DAG HAMMARSKJÖLD/BY/BARBARA HEPWORTH.