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Draped Reclining Woman 1957–58 (LH 431) [1] is a bronze sculpture by British artist Henry Moore, with a series of six castings (plus an artists cast, 0/6) made by Hermann Noack in Berlin. [ 2 ] The sculpture depicts a female figure in a reclining position on its right side, with its weight supported on its right hand and right leg.
The work is a development of Moore's earlier stone sculptures Reclining Figure 1929 (LH 59), which was made in Brown Hornton limestone, and his Reclining Woman (Mountains) 1930 (LH 84); and his elmwood sculpture Reclining Figure 1935–6. It is less blocky and more rounded than the earlier works, and pierced with holes through.
Reclining Figure 1938 (LH 192) is a small sculpture by Henry Moore of an sinuous abstracted human figure. An enlarged version was made in 1984 for the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, Singapore. The resulting Large Reclining Figure (LH 192b) is some 9 metres (30 ft) long, making it the largest sculpture made by Moore.
Moore was commissioned in 1955 to create a sculpture for the piazza in front of UNESCO's new headquarters in Paris, designed by the architect Marcel Breuer.Early ideas included groups of standing or seated figures, such as Draped Reclining Woman 1957–58 and Draped Seated Woman 1957–58, but he settled on a single and more abstract reclining figure for the UNESCO commission.
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Henry Moore Foundation LH 65 Image online [50] Reclining Figure [51] 1929 Alabaster H 46.7 LH 71 Reclining Woman [52] [51] 1930 green Hornton stone [12] L 94 National Gallery of Canada: LH 84 Image online [53] Reclining Figure [51] 1930 Corsehill stone H 49.5 LH 90 Image online [54] Girl with Clasped Hands [55] 1930 Cumberland alabaster H 38.1 ...
Reclining Figure: Festival (LH 293) [1] is a bronze sculpture by English artist Henry Moore, commissioned by the Arts Council in 1949 for the Festival of Britain in 1951. The sculpture can be viewed as an abstraction of a reclining female human figure, resting on two arms, with a small head.
Large Four Piece Reclining Figure 1972–73 at Harvard University.. Large Four Piece Reclining Figure 1972–73 (LH 629) is a bronze sculpture by Henry Moore.Approximately 4 metres (13 ft) long, the sculpture was made an edition of seven full size casts (plus an artist's copy), all cast by the Hermann Noack foundry in Berlin.