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Barbara Hepworth, Orpheus (Maquette 1), 1956 Frame:gold bringing into sharp focus a

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bringing into sharp focus a complex man who captured in his work as a potter the "still center" that always eluded him in his tumultuous personal life

writers and naturalists

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As part of his new commission for the Hepworth Wakefield

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Barbara Hepworth, Orpheus (Maquette 1), 1956 Frame:gold bringing into sharp focus aOrpheus (Maquette 1) is one of Hepworths first explorations in working in sheet metal. As she later recalled, I found the most intense pleasure in this new adventure in material and revelled in the lightness of poise and delicacy of forms which seemed nearer to the flight of birds and their form in flight rather than to more gravity bound rocks and humans. The title Orpheus refers to the musician and poet in Greek mythology and reflects Hepworths

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