Figures (Delphi)
Barbara Hepworth (Wakefield 1903 – St Ives 1975)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1956
Materials
Oil, pencil and gouache on fibreboard
Measurements
760 x 380 mm
Place of origin
St Ives
Order this imageCollection
Dudmaston, Shropshire
NT 814221
Summary
Oil, pencil and gouache on fibreboard, Figures (Delphi) by Barbara Hepworth (Wakefield 1903 – St Ives 1975), 1956. Two abstract human figures, pained in black, white and yellow pigments. In 1954 Hepworth took a recuperative holiday to Greece which influenced her artwork thereafter; the figures here relate to Archaic Greek kouroi figurative sculptures.
Provenance
With The Zwemmer Gallery, 26 Litchfield Street, Charing Cross Road, London; Sir George Labouchere Collection.
Credit line
Dudmaston, The Sir George Labouchere Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Pasted on reverse: The Zwemmer Gallery label
Makers and roles
Barbara Hepworth (Wakefield 1903 – St Ives 1975), artist
References
Labouchere 1980: Sir George Labouchere, Contemporary Art at Dudmaston, National Trust 1980, p. 10, no. 1 as 'Delphic Figures' Conroy, Rachel, Women Artists and Designers at the National Trust, 2025, pp. 232-235
