Dame Barbara Hepworth

Sketches of diagrams

1954–5

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Created by: Dame Barbara Hepworth 1903–1975
Title: Sketches of diagrams
Date: 1954–5
Description: Contains sketches in graphite of diagrams on both sides.
Format: Artwork - on paper, unique
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented by the Estate of Barbara Hepworth 2015
Reference: TGA 20159/23

Archive context

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) TGA 20159 (23)
- Sketches of diagrams TGA 20159/23