Museum Launches Public Appeal to Raise $5. M to Keep Rare Barbara Hepworth Sculpture on British Soil

British Museum, Charity, Launch $5.3 Million Public Appeal to Keep Rare Barbara Hepworth Sculpture in Country

England’s Hepworth Wakefield museum has teamed up with UK charity the Art Fund to amass the £3.8 million ($5.2 million) needed to retain British sculptor Barbara Hepworth’s 1943 Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red for the nation. The rarely shown work was sold at auction by Christie’s for £3.8 million in March […]

Museum Launches Public Appeal to Raise $5. M to Keep Rare Barbara Hepworth Sculpture on British Soil

A public campaign was launched on Thursday to raise £3.8 million ($5 million) to buy a rare Barbara Hepworth sculpture and keep it on British soil.  A private collector bought the wooden work, which incorporates multi-colored strings and is titled Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red (1943), at Christie’s London in March last year for £3.8 million (including fees). However, last December, the UK government slapped a temporary expo…

Anish Kapoor and Rachel Whiteread back campaign to keep Barbara Hepworth sculpture in the UK

Hepworth Wakefield gallery is hoping to raise £3.8m to acquire ‘Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red’, which costs £3.8m