Word: hepworth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Dame Barbara Hepworth, 72, British abstract sculptor; in a fire that ravaged her studio at St. Ives, Cornwall. A fellow traveler with the small band of venturesome Britons-including Sculptor Henry Moore and her second husband, Painter Ben Nicholson-who pioneered abstract art in the 1930s, Hepworth established her trademark in 1931 when she pierced a hole in a small carving to seize the viewer's eye. "I thought it was a small miracle," she later recalled. "A new vision was opened." Holes and hollows, sometimes painted to accentuate their depth, turned up in most...
...promote established artists, not to rear unknowns. Understandably, other dealers-especially the ones who brought some present Marlborough stars from obscurity-dislike this. Among them, Lloyd's unpopularity is notorious. "It's a bit like stealing a patent," says London Dealer Peter Gimpel, who lost Sculptors Barbara Hepworth, Kenneth Armitage and Lynn Chadwick to Marlborough. When another London dealer discovered that she had lost a prominent artist to Lloyd, she contemplated a lawsuit. Presently her banker called to say that her credit would dry up if the suit reached court. She dropped...