A recently unearthed Michelangelo sketch, considered to be the artist’s first nude, has sold at Christie’s Paris for a record 23 million euros ($24 million). “Michelangelo has decided to make the figure into something that corresponded more to his aesthetic by making him much more robust and monumental, while at the same time keeping the fragility of the figure, who is exposed and shivering” as he awaits baptism,” says Christie’s Old Masters expert Stijn Alsteens.
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Tate St Ives
Porthmeor Beach
St Ives
Cornwall
TR26 1TG
Barbara Hepworth Museum & Sculpture Garden
Barnoon Hill
St Ives
Cornwall
TR26 1AD
March – October
Monday – Sunday 10am – 5:20pm
November – February
Tuesday – Sunday 10am – 4:20pm
Barbara Hepworth Museum & Sculpture Garden
March – October
Daily 10am – 5:20pm
November – February
Tuesday – Sunday 10am – 4:20pm
£8.75 (£4.50 concessions)
Tate St Ives Only
£5.75 (£3.25 concessions)
Barbara Hepworth Museum Only
£4.75 (£2.75 concessions)
Tate Members and people who are 18 and under or 60 and over : Free
Located on Britain’s coast, Tate St Ives includes a collection of modern and contemporary art. Tate St Ives also houses a prestigious Artist Residency program to support new and emerging artists in historic Cornwall. Recent grads include Nick Evans, Kerstin Kartscher and Ged Quinn. This Tate location also features the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden, formerly Trewyn studios where she lived and worked from 1949 to 1975.