Barbara Hepworth, Orpheus (Maquette 1), 1956 Frame:gold were commissioned to create prints

were commissioned to create prints specifically for schools to allow children to have direct access to high-quality art

differ in appearance

+ Use in an electric diffuser

They serve as a further illustration that the process of digitising an object or physical situation and the subsequent attempt to recreate the object or image loses its original meaning or use and is therefore futile

bringing into sharp focus a complex man who captured in his work as a potter the "still center" that always eluded him in his tumultuous personal life

Barbara Hepworth, Orpheus (Maquette 1), 1956 Frame:gold were commissioned to create printsOrpheus (Maquette 1) is one of Hepworths first explorations in working in sheet metal. As she later recalled, I found the most intense pleasure in this new adventure in material and revelled in the lightness of poise and delicacy of forms which seemed nearer to the flight of birds and their form in flight rather than to more gravity bound rocks and humans. The title Orpheus refers to the musician and poet in Greek mythology and reflects Hepworths