Contrapuntal Forms (Hepworth)

Contrapuntal Forms (BH 165) is a stone sculpture by Barbara Hepworth, one of her first public commissions, made in 1950–51 for the Festival of Britain and installed outside the Dome of Discovery on South Bank, London.

[1] It was one of two Hepworth commissions for the festival: the other was an abstract rotating sculpture, Turning Forms (BH 166).

[2] The work stands 120" (3.04m) high and is carved from blue limestone from County Galway, Ireland.

[3] It depicts two semi-abstracted standing figures.

The sculpture was commissioned by the Arts Council of Great Britain[4] who presented it to the new town of Harlow in Essex in 1953.