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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)
  • Sketches of forms to be carried by ‘Tree Presences’

Dame Barbara Hepworth

Sketches of forms to be carried by ‘Tree Presences’

1954–5

Barbara Hepworth © Bowness

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Created by
Dame Barbara Hepworth 1903–1975
Title
Sketches of forms to be carried by ‘Tree Presences’
Date
1954–5
Medium
Mixed media including graphite, ink and gouache on paper
Description
Contains sketches in graphite and gouache with designs suggestions of shapes to be used as props in front of the cave gate in the opera 'The Midsummer Marriage' for the Ancients.
Format
Artwork - on paper, unique
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
Presented by the Estate of Barbara Hepworth 2015
Reference
TGA 20159/3

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 forms to be carried by ‘Tree Presences’ TGA 20159/3
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