Pelagos

Title (Dublin Core): Pelagos
Description (Dublin Core): Pelagos (‘sea’ in Greek) was inspired by a view of the bay at St Ives in Cornwall, where two stretches of land surround the sea on either side. The hollowed-out sculpture has a spiral form resembling a shell, a wave or the roll of a hill. Hepworth wanted the taut strings to express ‘the tension I felt between myself and the sea, the wind or the hills’. She moved to Cornwall with her husband, painter Ben Nicholson in 1939 and produced some of her best-known sculpture inspired by its wild landscape.
Type (Dublin Core): abstract (general art genre)
Subject (Dublin Core): Sculpture
Creator (Dublin Core): Hepworth, Barbara
Date Created (Dublin Core): 1946
Medium (Dublin Core): Elm and strings on oak base; elm (wood); oak (wood)
Extent (Dublin Core): 14 1/2" x 15 1/4" x 13(430 x 460 x 385cm)

15.2 kg
Coverage (Dublin Core): Tate Modern (Gallery) Tate Modern :
Rights (Dublin Core): © Bowness
Rights Holder (Dublin Core): Musée Rodin (Paris, France): Barbara Hepworth at the Rodin Museum
Identifier (Dublin Core): Bio_Sculpt008_DBH_Pelagos
Source (Dublin Core): Tate Modern

Site pages: Barbara Hepworth; Oval Sculpture No. 2; Pelagos; Two Figures (Menhirs)

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