Millions needed to keep famous works of Barbara Hepworth in UK
'Sculpture with colour, oval form, pale blue and red' is one of the artist's most famous works. It's due to be exported overseas, unless £3.8 million can be raised by the end of the month to buy it for public display.
We were in Wakefield, where Hepworth grew up, to meet the museum campaigning to keep it.
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