Barbara Hepworth is one of Britain’s greatest artists, and Tate Britain is presenting the first major London retrospective of her work for nearly half a century. With over 100 works, Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World is a comprehensive round-up of her bronzes and carvings and I was lucky to attend the recent press launch in the Linbury Galleries.
The Linbury Galleries do not benefit from natural light, but the sculptures sit well in this space, which reunites not only her sculptures but also personal photograph albums compiled by Barbara Hepworth and her second husband, the artist Ben Nicholson. Born in 1903, Barbara Hepworth started creating carvings in the 1920s, and studied sculpture at Leeds School of Art where she became friends with fellow artist Henry Moore. Hepworth was at the forefront of international modernism, the international community of abstract artists in the 1930s that included Piet Mondrian and Alexander Calder...The post Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World -Tate Britain appeared first on Luxury Columnist.