Lost Hepworth sculptures go on display at last BARBARA HEPWORTH sculptures which were previously thought to have been “lost” will go on display in a new major retrospective on the Yorkshire artist. Curators want the Tate Britain show to restore Hepworth’s international reputation, which has long been overshadowed by her famous Yorkshire contemporary, Henry Moore. Hepworth died in 1975, aged 72. Her home city of Wakefield now houses a gallery named after her. Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture For A Modern World will feature works which experts have “always wanted to find” but were “thought to have been lost”. They include the alabaster sculpture Figure (1933), whose whereabouts had been unknown since the 1960s but was found in a private collection by curators putting together the new show. It will also feature Contemplative Figure (1928) which was discovered in a house in the affluent Pacific Palisades area of California. Tate Britain’s director Penelope Curtis, who is co-curating the exhibition, said: “Works that we looked for 10 or 20 years ago have now re-emerged…in different places around the world.” Co-curator Chris Stephens said that sculptures which would have taken five years to track down “or not” before the age of digital media, could now be discovered in weeks. “Twenty years ago [...] leedsinnews/lost-hepworth-sculptures-go-on-display-at-last-2/
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:30:25 +0000
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