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| DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-75) Hepworth is one of the most important figures in British abstract art. Her curvaceous sculptures, produced from her beautiful home in the fishing village of St Ives, Cornwall, reflect the nature that surrounds her, and she constantly worked with the counterplay between mass and space in sculpture. It can be said that the missing parts, holes, of Hepworth’s forms are just as important as the remaining wood or stone. She married Ben Nicholson in 1931, and was great friends with Henry Moore; Hepworth tragically died in a fire at her studio, which is now a museum dedicated to her work. |
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