The three parallel lines cutting across a hollowed out area foreshadow Moore's
stringed sculptures created between 1937 and 1940.
The first of a series of
stringed sculptures inspired by mathematical models in the Science Museum and exhibiting constructivist tendencies.
Not exact matches
Stringed Figure (Curlew), Version II Artist: Dame Barbara Hepworth 1903 - 1975 Date: 1956, edition 1959 Classification:
sculpture Medium: Brass and string on wooden base Dimensions: object: 514 x 768 x 432 mm Presented by the executors of the artist's estate 1980 © Bowness
These carvings are closely related to drawings Hepworth made during the war - when she had little opportunity to carve - of abstract
stringed forms with colour, which are surrogate
sculptures in many ways.