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Henry Moore's house, now the headquarters of the Henry Moore Foundation. The Henry Moore Foundation is a registered charity in England, established for education and promotion of the fine arts — in particular, to advance understanding of the works of Henry Moore, and to promote the public appreciation of sculpture more generally.
Perry Green is a scattered hamlet in Hertfordshire, England, near Much Hadham. [1]St. Thomas's Church, Perry Green. The sculptor Henry Moore settled there in 1941. [2] His house Hoglands now forms part of a sculpture garden featuring his work, run by the Henry Moore Foundation.
It was enlarged in 1984 for a commission from the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation in Singapore to create a 9 metres (30 ft) long bronze, Moore's largest ever sculpture. The original Large Reclining Figure (LH 192b) is outside the OCBC Centre in Singapore, with an artist's copy in bronze at the Henry Moore Foundation in Perry Green ...
First, Moore made a 162.5 centimetres (5 ft 4.0 in) high working model (LH 481) in 1961. The Henry Moore Foundation at Perry Green, Hertfordshire, has two versions, one in plaster and another in fibreglass, [1] [2] and other examples are held by the Hakone Open-Air Museum in Japan, [3] and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington ...
The artist's cast (0/6) was stolen from the Henry Moore Foundation at Perry Green, Hertfordshire on 15 December 2005. It is believed to have been hoisted onto the back of a stolen flatbed Mercedes lorry using a crane, cut up for scrap the same night, and shipped to Rotterdam , and then probably to the Far East.
It is approximately 4.7m long. Seven casts and an artist's proof were made. Three publicly exhibited casts are situated in the Sodra Kungsgatan in Gävle, Sweden, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, USA, [2] and the Henry Moore Foundation in Perry Green, Hertfordshire. [3]
Two full-size fibreglass versions were cast in 1971, both held by the Henry Moore Foundation in Perry Green, Hertfordshire. Three bronze casts were originally made, including one artist's model, and a fourth was created much later in 1987, measuring 293.5 by 208 by 260 centimetres (115.6 in × 81.9 in × 102.4 in), and weighing about 1,800 ...
The artist's copy was given to the Henry Moore Foundation and is on display in their sculpture garden around his old house at Perry Green, Hertfordshire. [4] Other copies in the edition are in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., [ 5 ] [ 6 ] and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany .