Art Funded
Preparation
© Bowness, Hepworth Estate & Exeter City Museums & Art Gallery
Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975)
Royal Albert Memorial Museum
1947
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.
- Medium: oil & pencil on board
- Dimensions: 36.8 x 26.7cm
- Art Fund Grant: £3181 ( Total: £12,725; Tax Remission)
- ArtFunded in: 1994
- Vendor: Cecily Capener
Provenance
Given to Norman Capener by the artist; by descent.
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