WAKEFIELD, England — The sculptor Barbara Hepworth was born in the former mill town of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, in 1921, and it is at the Hepworth Wakefield, a gallery named in her honor, which was ...

Sculpture With Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue And Red by Dame Barbara Hepworth was sold for more than £3.5m in 2024 A West Yorkshire art gallery is attempting to raise sufficient funds to purchase a ...

An "extremely rare" sculpture by late artist Barbara Hepworth is to be saved after an art gallery raised £3.8 million. The 1943 work entitled Sculpture With Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue And Red had ...

The sculptor is most associated with Cornwall but in 1954, grieving the death of her son, she found comfort – and artistic ...

Ablack-and-white photo of the British sculptor Barbara Hepworth, spread across two pages in Eleanor Clayton’s new biography of the artist, neatly sums up her place in the canon of 20th-century art.

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 ...

I am constantly plagued by this little-woman attitude,” the British sculptor Barbara Hepworth told an interviewer in 1966. “There is a deep prejudice against women in art.” She had reason to be tetchy ...

A year ago, Barbara Hepworth’s Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red was sold at Christie’s to an anonymous overseas bidder. Now, after a significant public campaign, it will remain in ...

Barbara Hepworth began working in bronze late and reluctantly. The British artist’s loyalty to wood and stone stemmed partly from her informal apprenticeship as a twenty-something in Italy under ...

Wonderful, intense eyes peer from above surgeons’ masks which fall over faces to make holy, spiritual visions. Hands are treated with a similar delicacy, and their gestures remind of Renaissance ...

A West Yorkshire art gallery is attempting to raise sufficient funds to purchase a Dame Barbara Hepworth sculpture "for the nation". The Hepworth Wakefield wants to buy Sculpture With Colour (Oval ...