Orpheus Barbara Hepworth

Orpheus Barbara Hepworth. The following year, hepworth again used brass for the winged figure group. The artist's bronze sculpture orpheus (maquette 1), will go on display at the hepworth wakefield gallery in west yorkshire in february 2020 alongside a sculpture by denis mitchell.

'Orpheus (Maquette 2) (Version II)', Dame Barbara Hepworth
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(53.9 cm.) overall conceived in 1956, in an edition of eight. Orpheus (maquette 2) version ii 1956 edition 1959 artist. I refer to them as:

The Following Year, Hepworth Again Used Brass For The Winged Figure Group.


The great orpheus, first inventor, through whom the vihuela appeared in the world, if he was the first, he was not without successors,. A maquette measuring 14 in. Having previously concentrated on carving, she began using sheet metal and string.

The Three Parts Of The Book Explore The Ways In Which Artists Have Identified With Different Aspects Of The Often Paradoxical Orpheus Myth.


Having previously concentrated on carving, she began using sheet metal and string. Dame barbara hepworth works in the collection. Orpheus (maquette i) conceived in 1956 brass with strings.

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Hepworth creates three important groups of prints between 1969 and 1971, culminating in the aegean suite, a set of nine lithographs published by curwen prints in 1971. This high resolution captures of hepworth’s orpheus (maquette 1), is one of four ‘orpheus’ works, three of which were editions. The artist's bronze sculpture orpheus (maquette 1), will go on display at the hepworth wakefield gallery in west yorkshire in february 2020 alongside a sculpture by denis mitchell.

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One of four ‘orpheus’ works, three of which were editions, this sculpture is an early example of hepworth’s move from carving predominantly in stone and wood, to including bronze and brass among her materials of choice. In 1965, the same year she lent her support to an appeal for peace in vietnam, hepworth wrote in the christian science monitor that sculpture should be an 'act of praise, and enduring expression of the divine spirit'. Barbara hepworth's orpheus (maquette 1) is a bronze and stringed sculpture on a wooden base from 1956.

Copper Alloy And Cotton String On A Wooden Base.


Join the list for early access. A sculpture by barbara hepworth is among three works by british modernist artists to be donated to a public collection. Drawings from a sculptor’s landscape, london, 1966, illustration of another example p.