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Casey Cooper-Fiske

‘Extremely rare’ Barbara Hepworth sculpture to be saved after £3.8m is raised

The sculpture will now be displayed in The Hepworth Wakefield (Betty Saunders/The Hepworth Wakefield/PA) -

An “extremely rare” sculpture by late artist Barbara Hepworth is to be saved after an art gallery raised £3.8 million.

The 1943 work entitled Sculpture With Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue And Red had been in private ownership and was placed under a temporary export bar by the UK Government, to give a British museum the chance to acquire it, after it was deemed too important to leave the UK.

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