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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.
Henry Moore Foundation LH 154a Image online [133] Carving [132] 1935 Walnut wood H 96.5 Henry Moore Foundation LH 158 Image online [134] Carving [132] 1935 African wonder stone H 15.2 LH 157 Image online [135] Sculpture [132] 1935 White marble L 55.9 Art Institute of Chicago: LH 161 Image online [136] Reclining Figure [137] 1936 Elm wood L 88.9 ...
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.
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]
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.
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.
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.
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]