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Barbara Hepworth instructed people to "walk in" to her sculptures? Source: "In 1962 Hepworth gave an interview to The Studio magazine in which she remarked on her interest in the abstract form and its potential appeal to viewers: 'It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture since the whole body reacts to its presence...people become themselves a living part of the work'. It is perhaps this idea which prompted her to use part of her work's titles to invite people to 'Walk In' or 'Walk Through'" ([
https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2015/beyond-limits-l15010/lot.13.html Sotheby's - Beyond Limits: The Landscape of British Sculpture 1950-2015 - Lot 13 Dame Barbara Hepworth DBE THREE OBLIQUES (WALK IN))
Interesting sculpture, on good sources, no copyvio obvious. I'd prefer to have the title she gave the piece in full. The image is licensed, but I believe the lead image shows better that there are three. In the article, I'd add dimensions to the infobox. --
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