drawing
- Museum number
- 2008,7081.3
- Description
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Woman in Armchair; nude female seated in armchair. 1949
Blue ink on paper
- Production date
- 1949
- Dimensions
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Height: 371 millimetres
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Width: 263 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See Unpublished Barbara Hepworth Drawings and Paintings catalogue, no.227. Reprod. Barbara Hepworth, 'Drawings from a Sculptor's Landscape', London, 1966, fig.12b
Label text from 2008-9 Sept.-Jan BM, British Sculptors' Drawings
This is one of ten drawings by Barbara Hepworth that have been presented to the British Museum in 2007 by her two daughters. They have been selected to cover the range of her draughtsmanship. This very generous gift transforms the British Museum's collection of her work.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2005 Oct-Nov, London, Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, Hepworth Drawings
2008-9 Sept.-Jan BM, British Sculptors' Drawings, no cat.
- Acquisition date
- 2008
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2008,7081.3
