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Preparation (© Bowness, Hepworth Estate & Exeter City Museums & Art Gallery)
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© Bowness, Hepworth Estate & Exeter City Museums & Art Gallery

Preparation

Artist: Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975)

Location: Royal Albert Memorial Museum

Date: 1947

Materials: oil & pencil on board

Dimensions: 36.8 x 26.7cm

Grant:

Amount Paid: £3,181 (Total: £12,725; tax remission)

Vendor: Cecily Capener

Review number: 4030 (1994)

Provenance:
Given to Norman Capener by the artist; by descent.

Description:
Hepworth worked on a series of drawings of surgeons at work inspired by her visits to operating theatres in Exeter and London. Depicted as a weighty and monumental figure, rendered anonymous by the medical mask, the surgeon contemplates the impending operation, his hands meeting as he mentally prepares them for action.

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