Red roses, with "Sphere with Inner Form" (1963) beyond, Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden, St. Ives, Cornwall, UK

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Enclosure was one of Barbara Hepworth's favoured themes, and in "Sphere with Inner Form" it is condensed to considerable formal simplicity. On more than one occasion Hepworth expounded upon the significance of this enclosure, especially pertinent to Sphere with Inner Form. She drew attention to the relationship between 'an inside and an outside of every form: a nut in its shell or of a child in the womb, or in the structure of shells or of crystals, or when one senses the architecture of bones in the human figure'

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Size: 3413px × 5120px
Location: Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden, St. Ives. Cornwall, UK
Photo credit: © will Perrett / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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