Granite Forms, red yellow and deep blue

Details

Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)
Granite Forms, red yellow and deep blue
signed 'Barbara Hepworth' (lower right), signed again, inscribed and dated 'Barbara Hepworth/Granite forms/oil/1953' (on the reverse)
pencil and oil on gesso-prepared board
14 x 10 in. (35.6 x 25.4 cm.)

Provenance

A gift from the artist to Sir Michael Tippett.

Literature

A. Bowness, Barbara Hepworth drawings from a sculptor's landscape, London, 1966, pl. 36.

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Lot Essay

The present work, painted in 1953, was a gift from the artist to Sir Michael Tippett. Hepworth first met the composer in 1952 when they were working on the idea of the St Ives Festival of Music and in 1954 Tippett asked her to design the sets for his opera The Midsummer Marriage. The artist was inspired by the allegorical meaning and symbolism of the music and produced Gaboesque curved and spoked constructions for the ballet Ritual Dance.

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