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‘Abstract drawing has always been for me a particularly exciting adventure. First there is only one’s mood; then the surface takes one’s mood in colour and texture; then a line or curve which, made with a pencil on the hard surface of many coats of oil or gouache, has a particular kind of “bite” rather like incising on slate; then one is lost in a new world of a thousand possibilities because the next line in association with the first will have a compulsion about it which will carry one forward into completely unknown territory. […] Suddenly before one’s eyes is a new form which, from the sculptor’s point of view, free as it is from the problems of solid material, can be deepened or extended, twisted or flattened, tightened and hardened according to one’s will, as one imbues it with its own special life. The whole process is opposite to that of drawing from life’ (B. Hepworth, quoted in A. Bowness, Barbara Hepworth, Drawings from a Sculptor’s Landscape, London, 1966, pp. 19-20).
We are grateful to Dr Sophie Bowness for her assistance with the cataloguing apparatus for this work. Dr Sophie Bowness and Dr Jenna Lundin Aral are preparing the revised catalogue raisonné of Hepworth’s paintings and drawings.
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Acrylic and pencil on board. When examined under ultraviolet light there are no visible signs of fluorescence. The work appears to be in excellent overall condition.
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