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Cork Street Galleries this year celebrates its centenary as a pioneering force in the art world, with 2025 marking 100 years ...
The problem with municipal art often lies in the way that it is commissioned – blandified by committees so it appeals to all.
Museums, foundations and art centers are vying to attract vacationers with a wealth of offerings, giving them the chance to ...
A monumental charcoal drawing by Jenny Saville,has sold for £2,114,000, far exceeding its pre-sale estimate of ...
They depend heavily on "those who get it " – "friends, family or romantic partners", who more likely than not "will often also be artists". Unsurprisingly, these collaborators frequently end up ...
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).
The exhibition features works that span three decades, including rarely-exhibited stringed sculptures from a tiny ‘hand sculpture’, as Hepworth called her smaller works, to the vast Winged Figure I, ...
Barbara Hepworth: Strings will delve into the stories surrounding Hepworth’s sculptures. For example, Theme on Electronics (Orpheus), inspired by the mythological bard playing his lyre, was a 1956 ...
Among the works she created there were Single Form (1961-64), Winged Figure (1961-62) and Four Square (Walk Through) (1966), the latter of which is on display at the Barbara Hepworth Museum and ...
Outside the Palais, the yard, where Dame Hepworth made the prototype for her sculpture Winged Figure, will be opened to the public for the first time, Tate St Ives said.
Dame Barbara Hepworth sculpture auctioned for almost half a million pounds Three Curves With Strings achieved £478,800 at auction, plus buyer’s premium, against an estimate of £80,000 to £ ...