Monolith (Empyrean) | Sculptures

Selected sculptures

Monolith (Empyrean), Limestone, 1953 (BH 190), Kenwood House grounds, Hampstead Heath, London

Photographed with Hepworth at her Whitechapel retrospective in 1954.
A memorial to Hepworth's son Paul Skeaping and his navigator, who were killed on active service with the RAF in 1953. Sited on the South Bank from 1954-61. Purchased from Hepworth by the London County Council in 1959. Sited since 1961 at Kenwood, London (English Heritage). Following conservation, the sculpture featured in the Hepworth exhibition in the Rijksmuseum Gardens, Amsterdam, June-October 2022, before returning to Kenwood.

Alabaster

Musician, 1929–30 (BH 19)
Two Forms, 1933 (BH 51)

Aluminium with colour

Sphere with Inside and Outside Colour, 1967 (BH 445, 6 were cast)

Aluminium with steel rods

Winged Figure, 1961–62 (BH 315)

American walnut

River Form, 1965 (BH 401)

Bianco del Mare

Madonna and Child, 1954 (BH 193)

Black and white marble

Two Forms (Black and White), 1970 (BH 508)

Blue ancaster stone

Monumental Stele, 1936 (BH 83)
Carving (Sculpture), 1936 (BH 87)

Blue marble

The Cosdon Head , 1949 (BH 157)

Boxwood

Single Form (Antiphon), 1953 (BH 187)

Brass with strings

Stringed Figure (Curlew) (Version I), 1956 (BH 225 A, edition of 9)

Bronze

Sculpture with Colour and Strings, 1939/1961 (cast in 1961 from plaster of 1939) (BH 113 B, edition of 9 + 1)
Coré, 1960 (BH 208 B, edition of 7)
Curved Form (Trevalgan), 1956 (BH 213, edition of 6)
Torso (Ulysses), 1958 (BH 233, edition of 6)
Cantate Domino, 1958 (BH 244, edition of 6)
Garden Sculpture (Model for Meridian), 1958 (BH 246, edition of 6)
Sea Form (Porthmeor), 1958 (BH 249, edition of 7 )
Meridian, Sculpture for State House, 1958–60 (BH 250)
Figure (Archaean), 1959 (BH 263, edition of 7)
Figure for Landscape, 1960 (BH 287, edition of 7)
Two Forms in Echelon, 1961 (BH 301 B, edition of 7)
Epidauros II, 1961 (BH 303, edition of 7 )
Oval Form (Trezion), 1961–63 (BH 304, edition of 7 + 0)
Curved Form (Bryher II), 1961 (BH 305, edition of 7)
Maquette, Three Forms in Echelon, 1961, cast 1965. (BH 306 B, edition of 9 + 0)
Single Form (Chûn Quoit), 1961 (BH 311, edition of 7)
Single Form (Memorial), 1961-62 (BH 314, edition of 2)
Single Form, 1961–64 (BH 325)
Square Forms (Two Sequences), 1963–64 (BH 331, edition of 7 + 0)
Sphere with Inner Form, 1963 (BH 333, edition of 7 + 0)
Squares with Two Circles, 1963 (BH 347)
Sea Form (Atlantic), 1964 (BH 362, edition of 6 + 0)
Rock Form (Porthcurno), 1964 (BH 363, edition of 6 + 0)
Dual Form, 1965 (BH 396, edition of 7 + 0)
Four-Square (Four Circles), 1966 (BH 428, edition of 7 + 0)
Elegy III, 1966 (BH 429, edition of 6 + 0)
Four-Square (Walk Through), 1966 (BH 433, edition of 3 + 0)
Two Figures, 1968 (BH 460, edition of 7 + 0)
Three Obliques (Walk In), 1968 (BH 473, edition of 2 + 0)
Two Forms (Divided Circle), 1969 (BH 477, edition of 6 + 1)
Single Form (Aloe), 1969 (BH 482, edition of 7 + 0)
Three Forms, 1970 (BH 504, edition of 9 + 0)
Theme and Variations, 1970 (BH 511, unique bronze)
The Family of Man, 1970 (BH 513, bronze in nine parts, edition of 2 groups + 4 individual casts of each figure)
Conversation with Magic Stones, 1973 (BH 567, edition of 3 groups plus 4 sets of individual sculptures)
Maquette, Conversation with Magic Stones, 1973–74 (BH 575, edition of 9 + 0)

Bronze with colour

Construction (Crucifixion), 1966–67 (BH 443, edition of 3)

Burmese wood

Infant, 1929 (BH 24)

Copper

Forms in Movement (Galliard), 1956 (BH 212, 4 were made)

Cornish elm

Single Form (Dryad), 1945–46 (BH 132)

Corsehill stone

Figure of a Woman, 1929–30 (BH 27)

Cumberland alabaster

Head, 1930–31 (BH 32)
Two Heads, 1932 (BH 38)
Mother and Child, 1934 (BH 58)

Elm wood with colour and strings

Pelagos, 1946 (BH 133)

Grey alabaster

Figure, 1933 (BH 47)
Two Forms, 1934 (BH 64)

Guarea wood

Configuration (Phira), 1955 (BH 200)

Guarea wood, part painted

Oval Sculpture (Delos), 1955 (BH 201)
Curved Form (Oracle), 1960 (BH 288)
Pierced Form (Epidauros), 1960 (BH 290)
Hollow Form with White Interior, 1963 (BH 328)
Two Forms with White (Greek), 1963 (BH 346)

Guarea wood, part painted with strings

Curved Form (Delphi), 1955 (BH 199)

Holly wood

Single Form, 1937 (BH 102)

Hoptonwood stone

Mother and Child, 1927 (BH 6)
Torso, 1928 (BH 12)
Vertical Forms, 1951 (BH 169)

Irish black marble

Two Rocks, 1971 (BH 536)

Irish blue limestone

Contrapuntal Forms, 1950–51 (BH 165)

Irish marble with colour

Two Opposing Forms (Grey and Green), 1969 (BH 492)

Limestone

Monolith (Empyrean), 1953 (BH 190)
Stone Sculpture (Fugue II), 1956 (BH 220)

Nebrasina stone

Curved Reclining Form (Rosewall), 1960–62 (BH 291)

Painted plaster and strings

Sculpture with Colour (Deep Blue and Red) [2], 1940 (BH 117 B)

Painted wood and strings

Sculpture with Colour (Deep Blue and Red) [6], 1943 (BH 118)
Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red, 1943 (BH 119)

Parian marble

Doves (Group), 1927 (BH 3)

Pentelicon marble

Mask, 1928 (BH 14)

Pink alabaster

Pierced Form, 1932 (BH 35)

Plane wood with colour

Pendour, 1947 (BH 145)

Plane wood with colour and strings

Wave, 1943–44 (BH 122)
Wood and Strings, 1944 (BH 125)

Plaster

Discs in Echelon, version 2, 1935–6 (BH 73 B)

Polished bronze

Four Figures Waiting, 1968 (BH 461, edition of 9 + 0)
Three Forms, 1971 (BH 521, edition of 6 + 0, cast from alabaster carving of 1935)
Oval with Two Forms, 1972 (BH 538, edition of 9 + 0)
Head (Ra), 1972 (BH 539, edition of 7 + 0)
Shaft and Circle, 1973 (BH 572, edition of 7 + 0)