Two Figures (Menhirs)

Title: Two Figures (Menhirs)
Description: The title conflates Hepworth's recurrent theme of two figures in harmonious conjunction with her interest in the ancient standing stones that can be seen in the landscape around St Ives. Appropriately, this work is carved from Cornish slate. The artist's first slate sculptures were carved from the bed of an old billiards table. The larger figure contains a striking fossil, which was created by a small creature swimming through the silt that solidified, preserving the pattern of eddying mud in the stone.
Type: abstract (general art genre)
Subject: Sculpture
Creator: Hepworth, Barbara
Date Created: 1964
Medium: Slate on wooden base; black slate; wood (plant material)
Extent: 32 1/2" x 25 1/8" x 12 5/8" (825 x 638 x 320cm)
Coverage: Tate Modern (Gallery) Tate Modern :
Rights: © Bowness
Rights Holder: Musée Rodin (Paris, France): Barbara Hepworth at the Rodin Museum
Identifier: Bio_Sculpt009_DBH_TwoFigures
Source: Tate Modern

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