Barbara Hepworth Green Hand Marble
Barbara hepworth 1903 1975 green head irish green marble height.
Barbara hepworth green hand marble. 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 a pictorial autobiography new york praeger publishers 1970. Hepworth described the late sculptures as objects which rise out of the land or the sea mysteriously and sought in them a finish which. This highly polished stone carries the distinctive veins of olive green serpentine so.
Hepworth attended wakefield girls high school where she was awarded music prizes at the age of 12 and won a. 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. Barbara hepworth ben nicholson. 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.
View green head 1970 by barbara hepworth. From waddington s barbara hepworth two marble forms mykonos 1969 colour lithograph on handmade barcham green paper 29 19 in. 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. Two opposing forms grey and green 1969 bh 492 two faces 1969 bh 498 1970s.
A pictorial autobiography bath 1971 extended edition published 1978 and subsequently reprinted in 1985 and 1993 p. Jocelyn barbara hepworth was born on 10 january 1903 in wakefield west riding of yorkshire the eldest child of gertrude and herbert hepworth. All my early memories are of forms and shapes and textures. 79 barbara hepworth a pictorial autobiography 1970 quotes from.
Sculpture and painting in the 1930s will be on display at hazlitt holland hibbert in london until 12 july 2019. Her father was a civil engineer for the west riding county council who in 1921 advanced to the role of county surveyor.