Dual Form (Hepworth)
Dual Form (BH 396) is a bronze sculpture by the British artist Barbara Hepworth.
Created in 1965, it was cast in an edition of 7+1 (seven casts plus one artist's copy) at the Morris Singer foundry. The full-size version measures 192 cm × 142 cm × 66 cm (76 in × 56 in × 26 in). It includes two large flattened oval shapes, each with a recessed area, and pierced by a hole, one with a round hole and the other hole elongated.
There is also a 19-inch bronze maquette (BH 397) which was cast in an edition of 9 plus an artist's copy.
An example of the full-size sculpture has usually been sited outside the St Ives Guildhall in Cornwall since 1966, but in 2024 it was temporarily moved to Kresen Kernow in Redruth while the area around the Guildhall is renovated. Another full-size cast was bought by Leeds City Art Gallery in 1967, on loan to Leeds University since 2016. Other casts are at the Peter Scott Gallery at Lancaster University, the Kröller-Müller Museum at Otterloo in the Netherlands, at The Phillips Collection in Washington DC (which also holds a maquette), and the Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon.
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Outside St Ives Guildhall -
At the Kröller-Müller Museum
References
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- Dual Form, barbarahepworth.org.uk
- Dame Barbara Hepworth, Volume of sculpture records, 1965, p.45-48, tate.org.uk
- Dual Form, St Ives, artuk.org
- Dual Form, Leeds, artuk.org
- Dual Form, Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster, artuk.org
- Dual Form, 1965, Kröller-Müller Museum
- Hepworth sculpture on the move, Leeds.gov.uk, 5 August 2016
- Dual Form, Portland, portlandartmuseum.us
- Dual Form, Washington DC, The Phillips Collection
- Maquette for Dual Form, Washington DC, The Phillips Collection
- Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Dual Form’s Temporary Relocation to Kresen Kernow, Redruth, cornishstuff.com, 26 November 2024