Barbara Hepworth Green Hand Marble

Three forms 1970 bh 504 edition of 9 0 two forms black and white 1970 bh 508 theme and variations 1970 bh 511 unique bronze.
Barbara hepworth green hand marble. View green head 1970 by barbara hepworth. Barbara hepworth museum and garden b br high art a beautiful garden and a shop selling cornish ice cream the hepworth museum in st ives has something for everyone br adults 5 25. Jocelyn barbara hepworth was born on 10 january 1903 in wakefield west riding of yorkshire the eldest child of gertrude and herbert hepworth. Hepworth attended wakefield girls high school where she was awarded music prizes at the age of 12 and won a.
From waddington s barbara hepworth two marble forms mykonos 1969 colour lithograph on handmade barcham green paper 29 19 in. Barbara hepworth a pictorial autobiography new york praeger publishers 1970. Two opposing forms grey and green 1969 bh 492 two faces 1969 bh 498 1970s. All the works are loaned from major public and private collections and an extensive catalog accompanies the exhibition including an important introductory essay written by christopher green.
Barbara hepworth ben nicholson. Barbara hepworth 1903 1975 green head irish green marble height. Sculpture and painting in the 1930s will be on display at hazlitt holland hibbert in london until 12 july 2019. Hepworth described the late sculptures as objects which rise out of the land or the sea mysteriously and sought in them a finish which.
She made two large scale marble compositions the assembly of sea forms 1972 norton simon museum of art pasadena and fallen images her last major work 1974 5 barbara hepworth museum st ives. Presented by the artist s daughters rachel kidd and sarah bowness through the trustees of the barbara hepworth estate and the art fund the two coré plasters were derived from a serravezza marble carving of 1955 6 marble form coré for the purpose of casting a bronze in 1960 at the art bronze foundry. An exquisite piece of irish green marble drawn from the quarries of the west of ireland is employed by the artist to create a polychromatic dynamic sculpture. Her father was a civil engineer for the west riding county council who in 1921 advanced to the role of county surveyor.
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