Barbara Hepworth, born in Wakefield, England in 1903, was a leading figure in modernist sculpture. She studied at the Leeds School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London.

Barbara Hepworth, Pierced hemisphere (Telstar), 1963. Photo courtesy of Piano Nobile. Elsewhere in the show is a maquette for perhaps Hepworth’s best known stringed work, Winged Figure (1963).

Dame Barbara bought the Grade II listed former cinema and dance hall in St Ives in 1961 to use as her second studio. It was donated to the Tate by the Hepworth family in 2015.

Barbara Hepworth: In Equilibrium is at Heide Museum of Modern art, November 5-March 13. A cultural guide to going out and loving your city. Sign up to our Culture Fix newsletter here .

Barbara Hepworth: Strings coincides with the fiftieth anniversary of the artist’s death. The presentation will focus on Hepworth’s use of string. Even if you haven’t heard of the artist, you may have ...

Tate Britain will open the first major Barbara Hepworth exhibition in London for almost fifty years. Barbara Hepworth (1903–75) is most commonly associated with St Ives, Cornwall, where she lived from ...

An oval-shaped sculpture by Dame Barbara Hepworth is up for sale with a multimillion-pound price tag. The piece, Sculpture With Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue And Red, created in March 1944, is part ...

A major Barbara Hepworth retrospective at the SNGMA adds significantly to our understanding of her work, writes Duncan Macmillan, while a digital exhibition in a virtual Tramway explores Steven ...

A new exhibition at London gallery Piano Nobile will feature works by English artist and sculptor Barbara Hepworth that have, up until now, only been viewed as part of private collections. Barbara ...