Barbara Hepworth began working in bronze late and reluctantly. The British artist’s loyalty to wood and stone stemmed partly from her informal apprenticeship as a twenty-something in Italy under ...

In November 2024, the British government placed an export bar on a sculpture crafted by the late Dame Barbara Hepworth in St Ives during the 1940s. Titled Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue ...

Barbara Hepworth’s elegant works, with their harp-like strings and splashes of blue, evoke the foamy breakers of St Ives. But should we really be surprised she used colour? They say in St Ives that if ...