Barbara Hepworth
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Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975)
British sculptor, one of the most important figures in the development of abstract art in Britain. She was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, the daughter of a civil engineer, and won scholarships to Leeds School of Art, 1919–21, and the Royal College of Art, 1921–24. Henry Moore was among her fellow students at both places and became a lifelong friend. In 1924 she came second to John Skeaping in the competition for the Prix de Rome, but she obtained a travelling scholarship and spent the years 1924–5 in Italy, marrying Skeaping in Rome in 1925 (they were divorced in 1933).
Text source: A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art (Oxford University Press)
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Barbara Hepworth: Strings
6 Feb - 2 May 2025In 1939, Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975) made her first sculpture threaded with strings. For the rest of her career, she intermittently combined string with works made from plaster, wood, metal and...Read more -
Treasure House Fair
Royal Hospital Chelsea 27 Jun - 2 Jul 2024 Art FairPiano Nobile returned to The Treasure House Fair in June of 2024. We highlighted works from across the twentieth century, with early paintings by Augustus John and Walter Sickert, Duncan...Read more -
London Art Week
Winter 2021 3 - 11 Dec 2021 OnlineFor London Art Week Winter 2021, Piano Nobile presented an online display of paintings, sculpture and works on paper. Featured artists included Walter Sickert, Barbara Hepworth, William Turnbull, Grayson Perry...Read more -
Masterpiece
Online Viewing Room 23 - 27 Jun 2021 OnlinePiano Nobile participated in Masterpiece Online 2021. We highlighted a selection of outstanding work by twentieth-century British artists, including paintings, sculpture and drawings by Leon Kossoff, Lynn Chadwick, Lucian Freud...Read more -
Defining British Art
1910 - 2000 17 May - 23 Jul 2021 Piano NobileThis exhibition reviewed the major creative outbursts in twentieth-century Britain, with paintings, sculptures, ceramics and textiles made by four generations of pioneering artists – from Sickert at the fin de...Read more
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Barbara Hepworth: Strings
6 February - 2 May 2025 December 18, 2024In 1939, Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975) made her first sculpture threaded with strings. For the rest of her career, she intermittently combined string with works made from plaster, wood, metal and stone. These were some of her most personally distinctive artistic achievements. In concert with her sculptural practice, she also used string-like motifs in abstract paintings and drawings. Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the artist’s death, 'Barbara Hepworth: Strings' is the first exhibition dedicated to these aspects of Hepworth’s output.Read more -
Barbara Hepworth
Two Forms, 1934-35 December 2, 2021Read more about the work here.Read more
News
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InSight No. 140
Barbara Hepworth | Preparation December 21, 2023InSight considers a poignant work of angelic humanist art by a titan of the modernist movement in Britain—Barbara Hepworth. InSight No. 140 Barbara Hepworth |...Read more -
Museum Belvédère's Living the Landscape exhibition to include Piano Nobile loans
Oranjewoud, Holland June 20, 2022Piano Nobile are delighted to have loaned several works to Museum Belvédère's Living the Landscape exhibition. Focusing on the work of Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth...Read more -
InSight No. 96
Barbara Hepworth | Two Forms February 2, 2022To Barbara Hepworth, the act of carving by hand was highly significant. After giving birth to triplets in October 1934, she continued carving and discovered...Read more -
InSight No. 77
Barbara Hepworth | Maquette, Theme and Variations, 1970 July 14, 2021Barbara Hepworth's final large-scale commission prompted a late flowering in her career. The project inspired a companion piece, a work of equal subtlety and sculptural...Read more -
InSight No. 76
Barbara Hepworth | Reclining Figures July 7, 2021Over the next two weeks, InSight presents two works by one of the great sculptors of the twentieth century: Barbara Hepworth. Barbara Hepworth Reclining...Read more -
InSight No. 12
Barbara Hepworth | Disc with Strings (Moon) May 13, 2020At 4.20 a.m. this morning, the tide in St Ives harbour reached its low point. A resident of the town from 1939 until her death...Read more
