Barbara Hepworth British, 1903-1975
Landscape Sculpture, 1947
Screenprint on silk
90 x 90 cm
Artist's signature lower left
Ascher's signature lower right
Titled upper right
Ed. 175 / 3 AP
Ascher's signature lower right
Titled upper right
Ed. 175 / 3 AP
During 1945-1947, celebrated fabric designer Zika Ascher collaborated with numerous artists on his Artist Squares' Collection. Ascher gave his artists an open brief, in order not to restrict their creativity...
During 1945-1947, celebrated fabric designer Zika Ascher collaborated with numerous artists on his Artist Squares' Collection. Ascher gave his artists an open brief, in order not to restrict their creativity to the confines of the technical problems of printing on textile. Thus Landscape Sculpture displays Hepworth's intuitive understanding of concepts of positive and negative space and proportion, ideas that were central to her sculptural language.
Exhibitions
1947, Lefevre Gallery, London
1950, Galerie Doucet, Paris
1975, The Ascher Squares, Neiman Marcus, Dallas
1983, Redfern Gallery
1987, Zika and Lida Ascher: Fabric - Art - Fashion, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
1990, Ascher Artists Scarves, Comme des Garçons, Tokyo
2008, Styling the Modern: Fine Art Meets Fashion, Fine Art Centre, Colorado Springs.
Literature
Valerie MENDES and Frances HINCHCLIFFE. Zika and Lida Ascher: Fabric - Art - Fashion. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1987, ill. p. 60.