Two Figures (Menhirs)

Title (Dublin Core): Two Figures (Menhirs)
Description (Dublin Core): 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 (Dublin Core): abstract (general art genre)
Subject (Dublin Core): Sculpture
Creator (Dublin Core): Hepworth, Barbara
Date Created (Dublin Core): 1964
Medium (Dublin Core): Slate on wooden base; black slate; wood (plant material)
Extent (Dublin Core): 32 1/2" x 25 1/8" x 12 5/8" (825 x 638 x 320cm)
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_Sculpt009_DBH_TwoFigures
Source (Dublin Core): Tate Modern

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

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