58 x 80.5 cm. (22.8 x 31.7 in.) Having worked on figurative drawings in the 1940s and early 1950s, by the 1960s Hepworth once again focused on the abstract. Space and the relationship between shapes ...
Barbara Hepworth, “Pelagos” (1946), Sculpture Elm and strings on oak, 430 x 460 x 385 mm (Tate © Bowness) Barbara Hepworth in the Palais de la Danse studio, St ...
“Art is beyond sex,” says Barbara Hepworth, and she would deplore being called Britain’s top woman sculptor. Yet she is, and more: after her old friend Henry Moore, she is possibly Britain’s best ...