December Forms

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Downing Street

Barbara Hepworth was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, and studied at the Royal College of Art in London. One of Britain’s foremost sculptors, she visited Italy in 1924 to study marble carving. In Paris in 1933 she joined Abstraction-Création, an international exhibition society. Her work moved into an abstract phase, and with husband Ben Nicholson and others, she was at the forefront of the modern movement. At the outbreak of the war she moved with Nicholson to Cornwall. From 1951, after her marriage dissolved, she lived permanently in St Ives. Retrospectives were held at the Whitechapel Gallery in London in 1952 and 1962, and the Tate in 1968. She was created DBE in 1965. After her tragic death in a fire, her studio was opened as a museum.

Places

Subjects

abstract, St. Ives School, winter

Materials & Techniques

screenprint

Artist

Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975)

Title

December Forms

Portfolio Title

Opposing Forms

Edition

20/60

Date

1970

Medium

Screenprint

Acquisition

Purchased from Marlborough Fine Art, December 1974

Inscription

bl: 20/60 br: Barbara Hepworth

GAC number

11750/4