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Henry Spencer Moore OM CH FBA (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English artist. He is best known for his semi- abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art.
Four-Piece Composition: Reclining Figure (LH154) [1] is an important early stone sculpture by the English sculptor Henry Moore.He had been working on depictions of the reclining human figure since at least 1924, but this small piece, made in the latter half of 1934, is the first work in which Moore breaks a human figure down in to several separate pieces.
Henry Moore Foundation LH 23 Image online [20] Chairback Relief [19] 1928 Teak L 78.7 LH 50a Image online [21] Two Heads [22] 1925 Mansfield stone H 31.7 Henry Moore Foundation LH 25 Image online [23] Head of a Woman [24] 1926 Concrete H 22.8 The Hepworth Wakefield: LH 36 Image online [25] Standing Woman [24] 1926 Stone H 86.3 destroyed LH 33 ...
UNESCO Reclining Figure 1957–58 is a sculpture by Henry Moore.It was made in a series of scales, from a small plaster maquette, through a half-size working model made in plaster and cast in bronze (LH 415), to a full-size version carved in Roman travertine marble in 1957–1958 (LH 416). [1]
Moore donated the plaster working model to the Art Gallery of Ontario in 1974. A second bronze cast is in the collection of the MIT List Visual Arts Center, mounted on a granite base; it was donated by Vera Glaser List in memory of Samuel Glaser. [2] A third version is located on Henry Moore’s estate in Hertfordshire, England. [2]
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.
The council's education officer Henry Morris approached Moore again in 1944, and Moore made a small clay model in 1945, now held by the Henry Moore Foundation in Perry Green, Hertfordshire. In this model, the father's head had a distinctive notch, also seen in other early works such as Four-Piece Composition: Reclining Figure of 1934, and ...
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. The Foundation is also tasked with administering the sale, exhibition and ...