{"id":800323,"date":"2026-10-12T16:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T16:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/800323\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T16:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T16:10:13","slug":"barbara-hepworth-dawn-sculpture-could-fetch-8m-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/800323\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Hepworth dawn sculpture could fetch \u00a38m at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She moved to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ck87v7p7vqx2o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St Ives<\/a> with her artist husband Ben Nicholson and their family at the outbreak of World War Two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She lived and worked in Trewyn Studio, which is now the Tate Barbara Hepworth Museum, from 1949 until her death in a fire in 1975. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Auctioneers said the Cornish light, sea, cliffs and ancient stones &#8220;became central to her artistic practice&#8221; and influenced her technique of adding colour to her sculptures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alice Murray, Christie&#8217;s head of modern British and Irish art, said the sculpture was carved &#8220;the year the world began again&#8221; after the war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Three hollows, painted blue, grey and white, catch the light like the first minutes of morning,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She moved to St Ives with her artist husband Ben Nicholson and their family at the outbreak of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-800323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}