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Twenty-three designs, notes and swatches for Sir Michael Tippett’s opera, ‘The Midsummer Marriage’, and two drawings for Sophocles’ ‘Electra’ at the Old Vic, 1950, by the artist Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)
Costume designs for two of the ‘Water Girls’ in the Act II

Dame Barbara Hepworth

Costume designs for two of the ‘Water Girls’ in the Act II

1954–5

Barbara Hepworth © Bowness

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Created by: Dame Barbara Hepworth 1903–1975
Title: Costume designs for two of the ‘Water Girls’ in the Act II
Date: 1954–5
Medium: Mixed media including graphite and gouache on paper, on board
Dimensions: 505 × 355 mm
Description: Contains two pencil and gouache drawings of costume designs for two water girls in the opera 'The Midsummer Marriage' in the act II 'Ritual Dance', it includes various handwritten notes regarding the fabrics and the colour schemes.
Format: Artwork - on paper, unique
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented by the Estate of Barbara Hepworth 2015
Reference: TGA 20159/2

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