WAKEFIELD, England — The sculptor Barbara Hepworth was born in the former mill town of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, in 1921, and it is at the Hepworth Wakefield, a gallery named in her honor, which was ...

On 14 October 2026, Christie's London combined 20/21 Evening Sales generated a total of £218,603,400 /$289,430,902 /€258,389,219, with a 103% increase on the total ...

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 ...

I am constantly plagued by this little-woman attitude,” the British sculptor Barbara Hepworth told an interviewer in 1966. “There is a deep prejudice against women in art.” She had reason to be tetchy ...

Ablack-and-white photo of the British sculptor Barbara Hepworth, spread across two pages in Eleanor Clayton’s new biography of the artist, neatly sums up her place in the canon of 20th-century art.

Barbara Hepworth, “Pelagos” (1946), Sculpture Elm and strings on oak, 430 x 460 x 385 mm (Tate © Bowness) Barbara Hepworth in the Palais de la Danse studio, St ...

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Google's homepage has been updated on Tuesday to honor of an influential English sculptor. If you go to Google.com, you'll see that the company's logo has been reimagined to depict the late artist ...

A bronze sculpture by Barbara Hepworth that had been languishing in a headmasters office for more than 60 years is to go on sale—with the funds raised going towards art student bursaries. The polished ...

She rose to international fame for her innovative sculptures, but without the support and encouragement of teachers at her Wakefield school, Barbara Hepworth's talent may never have developed. Now, ...

Barbara Hepworth had quite a night at Christie’s in London on Wednesday. Three of her sculptures were the top-selling lots in the auction house’s modern British and Irish art evening sale. On 21 and ...