Sculpture with Colour and Strings, 1939/1961

with Waddington Galleries, London

London, Marlborough Fine Art, Art in Britain 1930-40 Centred Around Axis Circle Unit One (similar version illustrated, no. 46);
Woking, The Lightbox, 2D:3D – Discover the Art of Sculpture: Sculpture & Sculptors’ Drawings from The Ingram Collection, 1 February – 1 March 2008;
London, Sotheby’s, Sculpture and Sculptors’ Drawings from The Ingram Collection, 10 – 21 January 2011;
London, RCA, A Perfect Place to Grow, 16 November 2012 – 3 January 2013;
Woking, The Lightbox, The Road to Abstraction, 21 May – 24 July 2016;
Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, Century: 100 Modern British Artists, 23 October 2016 – 8 January 2017;
London, Business Design Centre, London Art Fair Museum Partner, Ten Years – A Century of Art, 18 – 22 January 2017;
Kendal, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Land | Sea | Life: A British Art Collection, 20 October 2017 – 17 February 2018;
Bristol, RWA, In Relation: Nine Couples who Transformed Modern British Art, 16 June – 9 September 2018;
Woking, The Lightbox, Parallel Lines: Drawing and Sculpture, 22 June – 25 August 2019;
London, Science Museum, The Art of Innovation: From Enlightenment to Dark Matter, 25 September 2019 – 26 January 2020;
Woking, The Lightbox, Collector’s Favourites (online exhibition), 1 June – 1 September 2020;
Woking, The Lightbox, Redressing the Balance: Women Artists from The Ingram Collection, 11 August – 20 September 2020;
Hastings, Hastings Contemporary, Seaside Modern: Art and Life on the Beach, 27 May – 31 October 2021

H. Read, Barbara Hepworth Carvings and Drawings, London, 1952 (plaster version illustrated, pl. 60a);
A. Bowness and J.P. Hodin, Barbara Hepworth, Neuchatel, 1961 (plaster version illustrated, p. 165, no. 113);
A.M. Hammacher, Modern English Sculpture, London, 1967 (similar version illustrated, p. 81);
A.M. Hammacher, The Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth, New York, 1968 (similar version illustrated, p. 78, no. 55)

At the outset of the Second World War, Hepworth and her husband Ben Nicholson moved to St Ives. Limited artists’ materials and space restricted Hepworth to small-scale sculptures. Throughout her life she used a variety of materials and methods. In the late 1930s she explored the interiors of round shapes with string and colours, the hollows influenced by shadows and caves and the strings representing the tension she felt within these concavities.