The exhibition will open to the public on the 12th June and be displayed until the 6th September.
Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red (1943), Barbara Hepworth. Hepworth Wakefield. Photo: Mark Heathcote; © Hepworth Wakefield
The Courtauld Gallery is preparing to present Hepworth in Colour, a major new exhibition focusing on the artist’s fascination with colour and how she is used in a variety of different ways.
Known for her abstract sculptural forms inspired by nature, Barbara Hepworth used colour throughout her career including in her painterly bronze surfaces and surprising use of coloured marbles.
This research driven exhibition will be comprised of around 20 sculptures and 30 drawings, showing sculpture in dialogue with her painted and graphic works.
It is the first exhibition to explore this less familiar aspect of her work, with it uniting her early innovative sculptures with colour of the 1940s, displayed alongside the most important drawings from that decade, and will include major examples of her work with colour from the 1950s and 1960s.
At the centre of the exhibition will be a group of wood and stone carvings created in the 1940s, with vivid blues and yellows painted into hollows and onto curves. Many of these have never previously been shown together and include key works from public and private collections, including as far afield as Australia and Hong Kong.
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