Cuts that heal: Barbara Hepworth's hospital drawings – in pictures

Prelude II, 1948 Photograph: Bowness, Hepworth Estate, courtesy of The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Barbara Hepworth, Concentration of Hands II, 1948
Photograph: Bowness, Hepworth Estate, courtesy of Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert

Study for a Group (Surgeon Robing II) Photograph: Bowness, Hepworth Estate, courtesy of Barbara Hepworth Gallery Wakefield

Prevision, 1948
Photograph: Bowness, Hepworth Estate, courtesy of the British Council Collection

Tibia Graft, 1949 Photograph: Bowness, Hepworth Estate, courtesy of the Wakefield Permanent Art Collection

Self-Portrait by Barbara Hepworth, 1950 Photograph: Hepworth Estate, courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery

Barbara Hepworth at work on an operating theatre drawing Quartet I (Arthroplasty), January 1948 Photograph: Courtesy of Bowness, Hepworth Estate

Norman Capener, the surgeon whom Hepworth befriended in 1948 – and some say was in love with
Photograph: courtesy of Mascalls Gallery

Capener and the surgical team Hepworth sketched
Photograph: courtesy of Mascalls Gallery