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.

1920s

Doves (Group), 1927 (BH 3)
Mother and Child, 1927 (BH 6)
Torso, 1928 (BH 12)
Mask, 1928 (BH 14)
Infant, 1929 (BH 24)

1930s

Musician, 1929–30 (BH 19)
Standing Figure, 1929–30 (BH 26)
Figure of a Woman, 1929–30 (BH 27)
Head, 1930–31 (BH 32)
Two Heads, 1932 (BH 38)
Pierced Form, 1932 (BH 35)
Figure, 1933 (BH 47)
Two Forms, 1933 (BH 51)
Two Forms, 1934 (BH 64)
Two Forms, 1934 (BH 65)
Mother and Child, 1934 (BH 58)
Large and Small Form, 1934 (BH 59)
Three Forms, 1935 (BH 72)
Discs in Echelon, version 2, 1935–6 (BH 73 B)
Form, 1936 (BH 82)
Monumental Stele, 1936 (BH 83)
Carving (Sculpture), 1936 (BH 87)
Ball, Plane and Hole, 1936 (BH 81)
Nesting Stones, 1937 (BH 90)
Two Forms, 1937 (BH 96)
Conoid, Sphere and Hollow III, 1937 (BH 100 A)
Single Form, 1937 (BH 102)

1940s

Sculpture with Colour (Deep Blue and Red) [2], 1940 (BH 117 B)
Sculpture with Colour (Deep Blue and Red) [6], 1943 (BH 118)
Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red, 1943 (BH 119)
Wave, 1943–44 (BH 122)
Wood and Strings, 1944 (BH 125)
Single Form (Dryad), 1945–46 (BH 132)
Pelagos, 1946 (BH 133)
Pendour, 1947 (BH 145)
The Cosdon Head , 1949 (BH 157)

1950s

Turning Forms, 1950 (BH 166)
Contrapuntal Forms, 1950–51 (BH 165)
Vertical Forms, 1951 (BH 169)
Figure (Churinga), 1952 (BH 177)
The Unknown Political Prisoner, 1952 (BH 186)
Pastorale, 1952 (BH 192)
Single Form (Antiphon), 1953 (BH 187)
Monolith (Empyrean), 1953 (BH 190)
Madonna and Child, 1954 (BH 193)
Two Figures (Menhirs), 1954–55 (BH 197)
Curved Form (Delphi), 1955 (BH 199)
Configuration (Phira), 1955 (BH 200)
Oval Sculpture (Delos), 1955 (BH 201)
Forms in Movement (Galliard), 1956 (BH 212, 4 were made)
Curved Form (Trevalgan), 1956 (BH 213, edition of 6)
Stone Sculpture (Fugue II), 1956 (BH 220)
Stringed Figure (Curlew) (Version I), 1956 (BH 225 A, edition of 9)
Torso (Ulysses), 1958 (BH 233, edition of 6)
Cantate Domino, 1958 (BH 244, edition of 6)
Sea Form (Porthmeor), 1958 (BH 249, edition of 7 )
Garden Sculpture (Model for Meridian), 1958 (BH 246, edition of 6)
Figure (Archaean), 1959 (BH 263, edition of 7)

1960s

Coré, 1960 (BH 208 B, edition of 7)
Meridian, Sculpture for State House, 1958–60 (BH 250)
Talisman II, 1960 (BH 276)
Figure for Landscape, 1960 (BH 287, edition of 7)
Curved Form (Oracle), 1960 (BH 288)
Pierced Form (Epidauros), 1960 (BH 290)
Curved Reclining Form (Rosewall), 1960–62 (BH 291)
Sculpture with Colour and Strings, 1939/1961 (cast in 1961 from plaster of 1939) (BH 113 B, edition of 9 + 1)
Two Forms in Echelon, 1961 (BH 301 B, edition of 7)
Epidauros II, 1961 (BH 303, edition of 7 )
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 (September), 1961 (BH 312)
Single Form (Memorial), 1961-62 (BH 314, edition of 2)
Winged Figure, 1961–62 (BH 315)
Oval Form (Trezion), 1961–63 (BH 304, edition of 7 + 0)
Sphere with Inner Form, 1963 (BH 333, edition of 7 + 0)
Two Forms with White (Greek), 1963 (BH 346)
Squares with Two Circles, 1963 (BH 347)
Hollow Form with White Interior, 1963 (BH 328)
Single Form, 1961–64 (BH 325)
Square Forms (Two Sequences), 1963–64 (BH 331, edition of 7 + 0)
Menhirs, 1964 (BH 340)
Sea Form (Atlantic), 1964 (BH 362, edition of 6 + 0)
Rock Form (Porthcurno), 1964 (BH 363, edition of 6 + 0)
Pierced Monolith with Colour, 1965 (BH 388)
Dual Form, 1965 (BH 396, edition of 7 + 0)
River Form, 1965 (BH 401)
Elegy III, 1966 (BH 429, edition of 6 + 0)
Four-Square (Walk Through), 1966 (BH 433, edition of 3 + 0)
Construction (Crucifixion), 1966–67 (BH 443, edition of 3)
Four-Square (Four Circles), 1966 (BH 428, edition of 7 + 0)
Sphere with Inside and Outside Colour, 1967 (BH 445, 6 were cast)
Three Forms Vertical (Offering), 1967 (BH 452)
Moon Form, 1968 (BH 456)
Two Figures, 1968 (BH 460, edition of 7 + 0)
Four Figures Waiting, 1968 (BH 461, edition of 9 + 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)
Two Opposing Forms (Grey and Green), 1969 (BH 492)
Two Faces, 1969 (BH 498)

1970s

Three Forms, 1970 (BH 504, edition of 9 + 0)
Two Forms (Black and White), 1970 (BH 508)
Theme and Variations, 1970 (BH 511, unique bronze)
Maquette, Theme and Variations, 1970 (BH 512 A, edition of 6)
The Family of Man, 1970 (BH 513, bronze in nine parts, edition of 2 groups + 4 individual casts of each figure)
Three Forms in Echelon, 1970 (BH 516)
Three Forms, 1971 (BH 521, edition of 6 + 0, cast from alabaster carving of 1935)
Two Forms (Newborn), 1971 (BH 532)
Sleeping Form, 1971 (BH 534)
Two Rocks, 1971 (BH 536)
Oval with Two Forms, 1972 (BH 538, edition of 9 + 0)
Head (Ra), 1972 (BH 539, edition of 7 + 0)
Child with Mother, 1972 (BH 544)
Assembly of Sea Forms, 1972 (BH 555)
Two Spheres in Orbit, 1973 (BH 562)
Conversation with Magic Stones, 1973 (BH 567, edition of 3 groups plus 4 sets of individual sculptures)
Group of Three Magic Stones, 1973 (BH 569, edition of 6 + 0)
Cone and Sphere, 1973 (BH 571)
Shaft and Circle, 1973 (BH 572, edition of 7 + 0)
Maquette, Conversation with Magic Stones, 1973–74 (BH 575, edition of 9 + 0)
Small One, Two, Three (Vertical), 1975 (BH 579)