Dame Barbara Hepworth, Two Forms 1933
© Bowness, Hepworth Estate
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This sculpture is carved from alabaster. The softness of alabaster suits Hepworth’s organic forms and she exploited this characteristic to incise such details as facial features and abstract patterns.
February 2010
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