Street art · London
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Winged Figure
By Barbara Hepworth
Ever wonder how you sculpt a bird taking flight without carving a single feather? Barbara Hepworth's 1963 aluminium 'Winged Figure' on Oxford Street answers with taut wires and swooping abstraction, pure postwar British modernism soaring above shoppe
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