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Lot Essay
We are grateful to Dr Sophie Bowness for her assistance with the cataloguing apparatus for this work.
Hepworth was fascinated with space exploration and celestial bodies which began appearing in her sculptures and prints following the first non-crewed moon landing in 1959. She embraced the impact of scientific advances with a sense of spirituality, writing in 1966: ‘I regard the present era of flight and projection into space as a tremendous expansion of our sensibilities, and space sculpture and kinetic forms are an expression of it; but in order to appreciate this fully I think that we must affirm some ancient stability’. The present work is the original pencil and watercolour work from which Hepworth executed an edition of 200 screenprints in 1972.
Hepworth was fascinated with space exploration and celestial bodies which began appearing in her sculptures and prints following the first non-crewed moon landing in 1959. She embraced the impact of scientific advances with a sense of spirituality, writing in 1966: ‘I regard the present era of flight and projection into space as a tremendous expansion of our sensibilities, and space sculpture and kinetic forms are an expression of it; but in order to appreciate this fully I think that we must affirm some ancient stability’. The present work is the original pencil and watercolour work from which Hepworth executed an edition of 200 screenprints in 1972.