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Barbara Hepworth.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)

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Barbara Hepworth was one of the most important British sculptors of the twentieth century. It is not surprising, therefore, that her two-dimensional works are less known. A loan exhibition at the London dealer Hazlitt Holland Hibbert brings together Hepworth's oils, watercolors, and drawings of the 1940s in the first such show for more than fifty years. The curator is Hepworth's granddaughter Sophie Bowness. The works have been lent by private and public collections, including the private collection of Her Majesty ...

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