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Moore enlarged the work again to create the 3.6 metres (11 ft 10 in) high Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge (LH 482a), cast in 1976 in an edition of 8 (6 plus 2 artist's copies). The two artists copies, cast 0 and cast 00, are owned by the Henry Moore Foundation, with one displayed in Greenwich Park from 1979 to 2007, and again since 2011.
Three-Way Piece No.1: Points (LH 533) [1] is a bronze abstract sculpture by Henry Moore.Three full-size sculptures were cast in 1967, one installed on the Columbia University campus in Upper Manhattan, New York City, and the others at Des Moines Art Center, and Fairmount Park in Philadelphia.
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.
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 ...
Moore began with a terracotta model made c.1945; its present location is unknown, but there are two known plaster copies, one at the Henry Moore Foundation and one on long-term loan to the Tate Gallery. [3] Moore also cast a bronze edition of four (plus one artist's copy) between 1948 and 1949; an additional artist's cast was made in 1985.
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.
It was a bronze edition of 7; the artist's copy ("0/7") is in Kew Gardens in London, loaned by the Henry Moore Foundation [3] another in the Hofgarten, Düsseldorf (illustrated), [4] and one at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C. [5] [6] The plaster model is at the Art Gallery of Ontario. [7]
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.