(Click on the photos to see more pictures at the flickr site)
Barbara Hepworth is one of the best known sculptors represented in the Harlow collection. Her works can be found everywhere from Oxford Street John Lewis to Winchester Cathedral. This piece was originally created for the Festival of Britain in 1951 when it stood proudly on the South Bank.
In music, contrapuntal refers to two lines going in different directions in one piece. Contrapuntal forms is one of a number of pieces in which Barbara Hepworth examined the relationship between two figures (See also this piece in the Tate collection). Although not as famous as her contemporary Henry Moore, her work, to my mind at least, deserves every bit as much recognition as Moore's.
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