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Title
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Two Figures (Menhirs)
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Description
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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.
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Subject
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Sculpture
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Date Created
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1964
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Extent
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32 1/2" x 25 1/8" x 12 5/8" (825 x 638 x 320cm)
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Rights
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© Bowness
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Rights Holder
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Musée Rodin (Paris, France): Barbara Hepworth at the Rodin Museum
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Identifier
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Bio_Sculpt009_DBH_TwoFigures
