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- Dag Hammarskjöld
- Recipient
- Dame Barbara Hepworth 1903–1975
- Title
- Letter sent by Dag Hammarskjöld to Barbara Hepworth regarding her catalogue
- Date
- 15 October 1960
- Medium
- Ink on paper
- Description
- Includes a letter sent by Dag Hammarskjöld to Barbara Hepworth discussing general news and her latest catalogue; he writes 'I can tell you that my first impression is one of great beauty but also of an increasing sense of the drama of the present fight between sub-human chaos and human creative order'.
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Barbara Hepworth Estate, January 2013.
- Reference
- TGA 20132/2/1/5/10
Archive context
- The remaining personal papers of Barbara Hepworth TGA 20132 (43)
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- Professional Correspondence TGA 20132/2 (43)
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- Correspondence and publications regarding the commission ‘Single Form’ for the United Nations TGA 20132/2/1 (43)
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- Correspondence with Dag Hammarskjöld TGA 20132/2/1/5 (18)
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- Letter sent by Dag Hammarskjöld to Barbara Hepworth regarding her catalogue TGA 20132/2/1/5/10