Artist field note

Barbara Hepworth

A hole can be part of the sculpture.

Pelagos by Barbara Hepworth — Detail of the work
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Pelagos

1946

Curving wood and taut strings turn a remembered coastal landscape into an interior rhythm.

The five in one idea

Hepworth made solid form and empty space interdependent, giving modern sculpture a quieter, bodily kind of monumentality.