A Twentiethcentury Sculptor Known for Exploring Open and Closed Forms in His Art Is

English artist known for sculpture (1898–1986)

Henry Moore OM CH FBA
Moore in 1975
Born	Henry Spencer Moore (1898-07-thirty)30 July 1898 Castleford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Died	31 August 1986(1986-08-31) (anile 88) Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, England
Education	Leeds School of Art Royal Higher of Art
Known for	Sculpture, cartoon, graphics, textiles
Notable piece of work	Reclining Figures, 1930s–1980s
Movement	Bronze Sculpture, Modernism

Henry Spencer Moore OM CH FBA (xxx 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. Every bit well as sculpture, Moore produced many drawings, including a series depicting Londoners sheltering from the Rush during the Second World State of war, along with other graphic works on paper.

His forms are normally abstractions of the homo effigy, typically depicting mother-and-kid or reclining figures. Moore's works are ordinarily suggestive of the female person body, apart from a stage in the 1950s when he sculpted family groups. His forms are generally pierced or comprise hollow spaces. Many interpreters liken the undulating grade of his reclining figures to the landscape and hills of his Yorkshire birthplace.

Moore became well known through his carved marble and larger-calibration abstruse cast bronze sculptures, and was instrumental in introducing a particular form of modernism to the United Kingdom. His ability in later life to fulfil large-scale commissions made him uncommonly wealthy. Despite this, he lived frugally; most of the money he earned went towards endowing the Henry Moore Foundation, which continues to support education and promotion of the arts.

Life [edit]

Early life [edit]

Moore was born in Castleford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, to Mary (née Baker) and Raymond Spencer Moore. His father was Irish and became pit deputy and and so under-manager of the Wheldale colliery in Castleford. He was an autodidact with an interest in music and literature. Determined that his sons would not piece of work in the mines, he saw formal education as the route to their advancement.^[1] Henry was the seventh of viii children in a family that ofttimes struggled with poverty. He attended infant and elementary schools in Castleford, where he began modelling in clay and etching in forest. He professed to accept decided to go a sculptor when he was eleven later on hearing of Michelangelo'south achievements at a Sunday School reading.^[ii]

On his 2d effort he was accepted at Castleford Secondary School, which several of his siblings had attended, where his headmaster before long noticed his talent and involvement in medieval sculpture.^[three] His fine art instructor, Alice Gostick, broadened his knowledge of fine art, and with her encouragement, he adamant to make art his career; first past sitting for examinations for a scholarship to the local fine art higher.^[4] Moore's earliest recorded carvings – a plaque for the Scott Order at Castleford Secondary School, and a Roll of Accolade commemorating the boys who went to fight in the First World War from the schoolhouse – were executed around this fourth dimension.^[five]

Despite his early hope, Moore's parents had been against him preparation as a sculptor, a vocation they considered transmission labour with few career prospects. Later a brief introduction as a student teacher, Moore became a instructor at the school he had attended.^[4] Upon turning 18, Moore volunteered for army service in the First World War. He was the youngest homo in the Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles regiment and was injured in 1917 in a gas attack, on 30 November at Bourlon Wood,^[6] during the Boxing of Cambrai.^[7] After recovering in hospital, he saw out the remainder of the war as a physical training teacher, only returning to France every bit the Armistice was signed. He recalled later on, "for me the war passed in a romantic haze of trying to exist a hero."^[8] This mental attitude changed as he reflected on the destructiveness of war and in 1940 he wrote, in a letter to his friend Arthur Auction, that "a year or two after [the war] the sight of a khaki uniform began to mean everything in life that was wrong and wasteful and anti-life. And I all the same have that feeling."^[9]

Beginnings equally a sculptor [edit]

Moore's reclining figures, such as the 1930 Reclining Woman (lesser), were influenced by Chac Mool figures, such as this one (tiptop) from Chichen Itza.

After the war, Moore received an ex-serviceman's grant to continue his teaching and in 1919 he became a student at the Leeds School of Fine art (now Leeds Arts Academy), which set up up a sculpture studio especially for him. At the college, he met Barbara Hepworth, a fellow student who would besides become a well-known British sculptor, and began a friendship and gentle professional rivalry that lasted for many years. In Leeds, Moore as well had access to the modernist works in the collection of Sir Michael Sadler, the University Vice-Chancellor, which had a pronounced effect on his development.^[10] In 1921, Moore won a scholarship to written report at the Imperial College of Art in London, along with Hepworth and other Yorkshire contemporaries.^[eleven] While in London, Moore extended his knowledge of primitive art and sculpture, studying the ethnographic collections at the British Museum.^[12]

The student sculptures of both Moore and Hepworth followed the standard romantic Victorian style, and included natural forms, landscapes and figurative modelling of animals. Moore afterward became uncomfortable with classically derived ideals; his later familiarity with primitivism and the influence of sculptors such as Constantin Brâncuși, Jacob Epstein, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Frank Dobson led him to the method of direct carving, in which imperfections in the material and marks left by tools became part of the finished sculpture. Having adopted this technique, Moore was in conflict with bookish tutors who did not appreciate such a modernistic approach. During one exercise set by Derwent Forest (the professor of sculpture at the Royal Higher), Moore was asked to reproduce a marble relief of Domenico Rosselli'due south The Virgin and Kid ^[13] by starting time modelling the relief in plaster, then reproducing it in marble using the mechanical aid known as a "pointing machine", a technique called "pointing". Instead, he carved the relief directly, even marking the surface to simulate the prick marks that would have been left by the pointing machine.^[14]

In 1924, Moore won a half-dozen-calendar month travelling scholarship which he spent in Northern Italy studying the nifty works of Michelangelo, Giotto di Bondone, Giovanni Pisano and several other Old Masters. During this period he as well visited Paris, took advantage of the timed-sketching classes at the Académie Colarossi, and viewed, in the Trocadero, a plaster cast of a Toltec-Maya sculptural grade, the Chac Mool, which he had previously seen in book illustrations. The reclining figure was to have a profound effect upon Moore'south work, becoming the primary motif of his sculpture.^[15]

Hampstead [edit]

On returning to London, Moore undertook a seven-year teaching post at the Royal College of Art. He was required to work 2 days a week, which allowed him time to spend on his ain work. His commencement public commission, West Wind (1928–29), was ane of the eight reliefs of the 'iv winds' loftier on the walls of London Clandestine's headquarters at 55 Broadway.^[xvi] The other 'winds' were carved by gimmicky sculptors including Eric Gill with the ground-level pieces provided by Epstein. 1928 saw Moore's commencement solo exhibition, held at the Warren Gallery in London.^[17] On xix July 1929, Moore married Irina Radetsky, a painting educatee at the Royal College.^[18] Irina was born in Kiev in 1907. Her father was killed in the Russian Revolution and her mother was evacuated to Paris where she married a British army officer. Irina was smuggled to Paris a year afterward and went to school there until she was 16, afterward which she was sent to live with her stepfather'south relatives in Buckinghamshire.^[nineteen]

Irina found security in her marriage to Moore and was soon posing for him. Presently after they married, the couple moved to a studio in Hampstead at 11a Parkhill Route NW3, joining a modest colony of avant-garde artists who were taking root there. Shortly afterward, Hepworth and her 2nd husband Ben Nicholson moved into a studio around the corner from Moore, while Naum Gabo, Roland Penrose, Cecil Stephenson and the art critic Herbert Read also lived in the area (Read referred to the expanse equally "a nest of gentle artists").^[20] The expanse was also a stopping-off bespeak for many refugee artists, architects and designers from continental Europe en route to America.^[21]

In 1932, later six-year'southward educational activity at the Royal College, Moore took up a mail service equally the Caput of the Department of Sculpture at the Chelsea Schoolhouse of Art.^[22] Artistically, Moore, Hepworth and other members of The 7 and Five Lodge would develop steadily more abstract work,^[23] partly influenced by their frequent trips to Paris and their contact with leading progressive artists, notably Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Jean Arp and Alberto Giacometti. Moore flirted with Surrealism, joining Paul Nash's mod art motility "Unit One", in 1933. In 1934, Moore visited Spain; he visited the cave of Altamira (which he described as the "Regal University of Cave Painting"), Madrid, Toledo and Pamplona.^[24]

In 1936, Moore joined a group of surrealist artists founded by Roland Penrose, and the same twelvemonth was honorary treasurer to the organising committee of the London International Surrealist Exhibition.^[25] In 1937, Roland Penrose purchased an abstract 'Female parent and Child' in rock from Moore that he displayed in the front garden of his house in Hampstead. The piece of work proved controversial with other residents and the local press ran a entrada confronting the piece over the next ii years. At this fourth dimension Moore gradually transitioned from straight etching to casting in bronze, modelling preliminary maquettes in clay or plaster rather than making preparatory drawings.^{[ commendation needed ]}

In 1938, Moore met Kenneth Clark for the first time.^[26] From this time, Clark became an unlikely but influential champion of Moore's work,^[27] and through his position every bit member of the Arts Council of Uk he secured exhibitions and commissions for the artist.^[28]

Second Earth State of war [edit]

Women and Children in the Tube (1940) (Art.IWM Art LD 759)

At the Coal Face. A Miner Pushing a Tub (1942) (Fine art.IWM Fine art LD 2240)

At the outbreak of the Second World War the Chelsea Schoolhouse of Art was evacuated to Northampton and Moore resigned his teaching post. During the state of war, Moore produced powerful drawings of Londoners sleeping in the London Underground while sheltering from the Rush.^[29] Kenneth Clark, the chairman of the War Artists' Advisory Committee (WAAC), had previously tried to recruit Moore as a full-time salaried war artist and now agreed to purchase some of the shelter drawings and issued contracts for further examples. The shelter drawings WAAC acquired were completed between the autumn of 1940 and the spring of 1941 and are regarded as among the finest products of the WAAC scheme.^[thirty] In August 1941 WAAC deputed Moore to draw miners working underground at the Wheldale Colliery in Yorkshire, where his father had worked at the start of the century. Moore drew the people in the shelters as passively waiting the all-clear while miners aggressively worked the coal-faces.^[31] These drawings helped to boost Moore's international reputation, specially in America where examples were included in the WAAC Great britain at War exhibition which toured North America throughout the war.^[30]

Subsequently their Hampstead home was hit by flop shrapnel in September 1940, Moore and Irina moved out of London to live in a farmhouse called Hoglands in the village of Perry Light-green near Much Hadham, Hertfordshire.^[32] This was to become Moore'south abode and workshop for the rest of his life. Despite acquiring pregnant wealth after in life, Moore never felt the need to move to larger premises and, apart from the improver of a number of outbuildings and studios, the business firm changed picayune over the years. In 1943 he received a commission from St Matthew's Church, Northampton, to carve a Madonna and Child; this sculpture was the commencement in an of import series of family unit-group sculptures.^[33]

Later years [edit]

After the war and following several earlier miscarriages, Irina gave birth to their girl, Mary Moore, in March 1946.^[34] The child was named after Moore's mother, who had died ii years before. Both the loss of his mother and the arrival of a baby focused Moore'south mind on the family unit, which he expressed in his piece of work past producing many "mother-and-child" compositions, although reclining and internal/external figures also remained popular. In the aforementioned yr, Moore made his first visit to America when a retrospective exhibition of his work opened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.^[35]

Before the state of war, Moore had been approached by educator Henry Morris, who was trying to reform education with his concept of the Hamlet College. Morris had engaged Walter Gropius every bit the builder for his second village college at Impington nearly Cambridge, and he wanted Moore to design a major public sculpture for the site. The County Council, even so, could non beget Gropius's full pattern, and scaled back the project when Gropius emigrated to America. Lacking funds, Morris had to cancel Moore'southward sculpture, which had non progressed beyond the maquette stage.^[36] Moore was able to reuse the design in 1950 for a similar commission exterior a secondary school for the new town of Stevenage. This fourth dimension, the projection was completed and Family Grouping became Moore'due south kickoff large-scale public bronze.^[37]

The UNESCO piece being moved, in 1963, to allow for building work

In the 1950s, Moore began to receive increasingly meaning commissions. He exhibited Reclining Figure: Festival at the Festival of Britain in 1951,^[38] and in 1958 produced a large marble reclining effigy for the UNESCO edifice in Paris.^[39] With many more public works of fine art, the calibration of Moore's sculptures grew significantly and he started to employ an increasing number of assistants to piece of work with him at Much Hadham, including Anthony Caro^[40] and Richard Wentworth.^[41]

On the campus of the Academy of Chicago in Dec 1967, 25 years to the minute^[42] later the team of physicists led past Enrico Fermi achieved the get-go controlled, cocky-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, Moore'southward Nuclear Energy was unveiled on the site of what was once the academy's football game field stands, in the rackets court beneath which the experiments had taken place.^[43] This 12-human foot-tall piece in the middle of a large, open plaza is often thought to represent a mushroom cloud topped past a massive man skull, but Moore'south estimation was very different. He in one case told a friend that he hoped viewers would "become effectually information technology, looking out through the open spaces, and that they may take a feeling of beingness in a cathedral."^[44] In Chicago, Illinois, Moore also commemorated scientific discipline with a big bronze sundial, locally named Human Enters the Cosmos (1980), which was commissioned to recognise the infinite exploration program.^[45]

The last 3 decades of Moore's life continued in a similar vein; several major retrospectives took place around the earth, notably a very prominent exhibition in the summer of 1972 in the grounds of the Forte di Belvedere overlooking Florence. Following the pioneering documentary 'Henry Moore', produced past John Read in 1951, he appeared in many films. In 1964, for instance, Moore was featured in the documentary "v British Sculptors (Work and Talk)" by American filmmaker Warren Forma. By the end of the 1970s, there were some 40 exhibitions a year featuring his work. The number of commissions connected to increase; he completed Pocketknife Edge 2 Piece in 1962 for Higher Green nearly the Houses of Parliament in London. According to Moore, "When I was offered the site near the Firm of Lords ... I liked the place so much that I didn't bother to go and see an culling site in Hyde Park—ane solitary sculpture tin be lost in a large park. The House of Lords site is quite different. It is adjacent to a path where people walk and it has a few seats where they can sit and contemplate it."^[46]

As his wealth grew, Moore began to worry about his legacy. With the aid of his girl Mary, he prepare the Henry Moore Trust in 1972, with a view to protecting his estate from expiry duties. By 1977, he was paying close to a million pounds a year in income tax; to mitigate his tax burden, he established the Henry Moore Foundation every bit a registered clemency with Irina and Mary as trustees. The Foundation was established to encourage the public appreciation of the visual arts and especially the works of Moore. Information technology now runs his firm and estate at Perry Dark-green, with a gallery, sculpture park and studios.^[47]

In 1979 Henry Moore became unexpectedly known in Frg when his sculpture Large Two Forms was installed in the forecourt of the German Chancellery in Bonn, which was the capital letter urban center of W Germany prior to German reunification in October 1990.^[48]

Moore died on 31 August 1986 at his home in Perry Greenish. His body was interred at the churchyard of St Thomas's Church.^[49]

The Art Gallery of Ontario's Henry Moore collection is the largest public collection of his works in the earth

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Style [edit]

Moore'southward signature form is a reclining figure. Moore'southward exploration of this form, under the influence of the Toltec-Mayan figure he had seen at the Louvre, was to lead him to increasing abstraction every bit he turned his thoughts towards experimentation with the elements of design. Moore'due south earlier reclining figures deal principally with mass, while his later ones contrast the solid elements of the sculpture with the space, non only round them but generally through them as he pierced the forms with openings.^{[ commendation needed ]}

Earlier figures are pierced in a conventional manner, in which aptitude limbs dissever from and rejoin the body. The later, more abstract figures are often penetrated by spaces direct through the body, by which means Moore explores and alternates concave and convex shapes. These more farthermost piercings developed in parallel with Barbara Hepworth's sculptures.^[50] Hepworth start pierced a torso later on misreading a review of i of Henry Moore'south early shows. The plaster Reclining Figure: Festival (1951) in the Tate, is characteristic of Moore's later on sculptures: an abstract female person effigy intercut with voids. As with much of the post-State of war work, there are several bronze casts of this sculpture. When Moore'south niece asked why his sculptures had such simple titles, he replied,

All art should have a certain mystery and should make demands on the spectator. Giving a sculpture or a drawing likewise explicit a title takes away role of that mystery so that the spectator moves on to the next object, making no effort to ponder the pregnant of what he has just seen. Everyone thinks that he or she looks but they don't really, you know.^[51]

Moore'southward early piece of work is focused on direct etching, in which the form of the sculpture evolves as the creative person repeatedly whittles away at the block. In the 1930s, Moore's transition into modernism paralleled that of Barbara Hepworth; the two exchanged new ideas with each other and several other artists then living in Hampstead. Moore fabricated many preparatory sketches and drawings for each sculpture. Almost of these sketchbooks accept survived and provide insight into Moore'due south evolution. He placed bang-up importance on cartoon; in former age, when he had arthritis, he connected to depict.^[52]

Wall Relief No. 1, (1955), Bouwcentrum, Rotterdam

After the Second World State of war, Moore's bronzes took on their larger scale, which was particularly suited for public art commissions. As a matter of practicality, he largely abandoned direct carving, and took on several assistants to assist produce the larger forms based on maquettes. By the end of the 1940s, he produced sculptures increasingly by modelling, working out the shape in dirt or plaster before casting the final work in statuary using the lost wax technique. These maquettes often began as small forms shaped by Moore'due south hands—a process that gives his piece of work an organic feeling. They are from the trunk. At his home in Much Hadham, Moore built up a collection of natural objects; skulls, driftwood, pebbles, rocks and shells, which he would use to provide inspiration for organic forms. For his largest works, he commonly produced a half-scale, working model before scaling upwards for the final moulding and casting at a bronze foundry. Moore often refined the final full plaster shape and added surface marks before casting.^{[ commendation needed ]}

Moore produced at to the lowest degree three significant examples of architectural sculpture during his career. In 1928, despite his own self-described "extreme reservations", he accepted his first public commission for Due west Air current for the London Underground Building at 55 Broadway in London, joining the company of Jacob Epstein and Eric Gill.^[53] In 1953, he completed a four-function concrete screen for the Fourth dimension-Life Building in New Bond Street, London,^[54] and in 1955 Moore turned to his first and only work in carved brick, "Wall Relief" at the Bouwcentrum in Rotterdam. The brick relief was sculpted with sixteen,000 bricks by two Dutch bricklayers under Moore'south supervision.^{[ commendation needed ]}

The aftermath of Earth War II, The Holocaust, and the age of the atomic flop instilled in the sculpture of the mid-1940s a sense that art should return to its pre-cultural and pre-rational origins. In the literature of the day, writers such equally Jean-Paul Sartre advocated a like reductive philosophy.^[55] At an introductory speech in New York City for an exhibition of one of the finest modernist sculptors, Alberto Giacometti, Sartre spoke of "The beginning and the end of history".^[56] Moore's sense of England emerging undefeated from siege led to his focus on pieces characterised by endurance and continuity.^[55]

Legacy [edit]

Virtually sculptors who emerged during the acme of Moore's fame, and in the backwash of his death, found themselves cast in his shadow. By the tardily 1940s, Moore was a worldwide celebrity; he was the voice of British sculpture, and of British modernism in general. The side by side generation was constantly compared confronting him, and reacted by challenging his legacy, his "establishment" credentials and his position. At the 1952 Venice Biennale, viii new British sculptors produced their Geometry of Fearfulness works equally a straight contrast to the ideals behind Moore's idea of Endurance, Continuity;^[57] his large bronze Double Continuing Figure stood outside the British pavilion, and contrasted strongly with the rougher and more athwart works inside.^[58]

All the same Moore had a direct influence on several generations of sculptors of both British and international reputation. Among the artists who accept acknowledged Moore's importance to their work are Sir Anthony Caro,^[59] Phillip Male monarch^[threescore] and Isaac Witkin,^[61] all three having been assistants to Moore. Other artists whose work was influenced by him include Helaine Blumenfeld, Drago Marin Cherina, Lynn Chadwick, Eduardo Paolozzi, Bernard Meadows, Reg Butler, William Turnbull, Robert Adams, Kenneth Armitage, and Geoffrey Clarke.^[62]

Henry Moore Foundation helps to preserve his legacy past supporting sculptors and creating exhibitions, its goal is to develop appreciation for visual arts. The Foundation was established by Henry and his family in 1977 in England, and still working.^[63]

Controversy [edit]

In December 2005, the 2 ton Reclining Effigy (1969–70) – insured for £three million – was lifted by crane from the grounds of the Henry Moore Foundation on to a lorry and has not been recovered.^[64] 2 men were jailed for a year in 2012 for stealing a sculpture called Sundial (1965) and the bronze plinth of another piece of work, too from the foundation's manor.^[65] In October 2013 Standing Effigy (1950), i of four Moore pieces in Glenkiln Sculpture Park, estimated to be worth £3 million, was stolen.^{[65] [66]}

In 2012, the quango of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets announced its plans to sell some other version of Draped Seated Woman 1957–58, a ane.6-tonne bronze sculpture.^[67] Moore, a well-known socialist, had sold the sculpture at a fraction of its market value to the former London Canton Council on the agreement that information technology would be displayed in a public space and might enrich the lives of those living in a socially deprived area. Nicknamed Old Flo, it was installed on the Stifford council estate in 1962 but was vandalised and moved to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 1997. Tower Hamlets Council later had considered moving Draped Seated Woman to private country in Canary Wharf but instead chose to "explore options" for a sale.^[68] In response to the declaration an open up letter of the alphabet was published in The Guardian, signed by Mary Moore, the artist's daughter, by Sir Nicholas Serota, Director of the Tate Gallery, by filmmaker Danny Boyle, and by artists including Jeremy Deller. The letter said that the sale "goes against the spirit of Henry Moore'south original sale" of the piece of work.^[69]

Popular interest [edit]

Today, the Henry Moore Foundation manages the artist's old home at Perry Green in Hertfordshire equally a visitor destination, with 70 acres of sculpture grounds as well as his restored house and studios. It as well runs the Henry Moore Found in Leeds which organises exhibitions and research activities in international sculpture. Popular interest in Moore's piece of work was perceived by some to take declined for a while in the UK but has been revived in recent times by exhibitions including at Kew Gardens in 2007, Tate Britain in 2010, and Hatfield House in 2011. The Foundation he endowed continues to play an essential role in promoting gimmicky art in the United Kingdom and abroad through its grants and exhibitions programme.^[70]

Collections [edit]

England [edit]

The earth's largest collection of Moore's work is open up to the public and is housed in the house and grounds of the 60-acre estate, that was Moore's dwelling for 40 years, in Perry Green in Hertfordshire . The site and the collection are at present owned by the Henry Moore Foundation.^[71]

In December 2005, thieves entered a courtyard at the Henry Moore Foundation and stole a cast of Moore'southward Reclining Figure 1969–70 (LH 608) – a 3.half dozen metre-long, 2.i-tonne statuary sculpture. Closed-circuit-television footage showed that they used a crane to lower the slice onto a stolen flatbed truck. A substantial reward was offered by the Foundation for data leading to its recovery. By May 2009, after a thorough investigation, British officials said they believe the work, once valued at £3 1000000 was probably sold for fleck metallic, fetching about £5,000.^{[72] [73]} In July 2012 the 22 inches (56 cm) bronze Sundial 1965, valued at £500,000, was stolen from the Moore Foundation.^[74] Subsequently that twelvemonth, following the details of the theft existence publicised on the BBC Crimewatch television programme, the piece of work was recovered, and the thieves were sentenced to twelve months' custody.^[75]

Moore presented 36 sculptures, as well equally drawings, maquettes and other works to the Tate Gallery in 1978.^[76]

Toronto [edit]

The Henry Moore Sculpture Centre in the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, opened in 1974. It comprises the world'due south largest public collection of Moore'south work, most of it donated past him between 1971 and 1974. Moore's Three Way Piece No. 2 (The Archer) has also been on brandish in Nathan Phillips Square at Toronto City Hall since 1966.^[77]

Recognition [edit]

In 1948, Moore won the International Sculpture Prize at the Venice Biennale.^[78] He turned downward a knighthood in 1951 because he felt that the bestowal would pb to a perception of him as an institution effigy and that "such a title might tend to cut me off from fellow artists whose work has aims similar to mine".^[62] He was, however, awarded the Companion of Honour in 1955,^[79] the Order of Merit in 1963^[80] and Erasmus Prize in 1968.^[81]

He was a trustee of both the National Gallery and Tate Gallery.^[82] His proposal that a wing of the latter should be devoted to his sculptures angry hostility among some artists. In 1975, he became the first President of the Turner Society,^[83] which had been founded to campaign for a separate museum in which the whole Turner Bequest^[84] might be reunited, an aim defeated by the National Gallery and Tate Gallery.^{[ citation needed ]}

Given to the City of London by Moore and the Gimmicky Fine art Society in 1967, Knife Edge Ii Slice 1962–65 is displayed in Abingdon Street Gardens, opposite the Houses of Parliament, where its regular appearance in the groundwork of televised news reports from Westminster makes it Moore's most prominent slice in Great britain. The ownership of Knife Border Two Piece 1962–65 was disputed until its 2011 acquisition by the Parliamentary Art Drove.^[85]

Art marketplace [edit]

By the end of his career, Moore was the world'south about successful living artist at sale. In 1982, four years before his decease, Sotheby's in New York sold a 6 ft Reclining Figure (1945), for $ane.two million to collector Wendell Cherry. Although a first tape of $4.1 million was set in 1990, Moore's market place slumped during the recession that followed. In 2012, his viii-human foot statuary, Reclining Effigy: Festival (1951) sold for a record £19.i 1000000 at Christie's, making him the second virtually expensive 20th-century British creative person after Francis Bacon.^[86]

Gallery [edit]

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  Three Piece Sculpture: Vertebrae (1968–69), Henry Moore, Kunsthalle Würth, 74523 Schwäbish Hall 2005

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  The Arch (1963/69), Henry Moore - Kunst in Schwäbisch Hall

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  Big Interior Form (1953–54), Henry Moore - Kunst in Schwäbisch Hall

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  Reclining Figure (1982), Henry Moore - Kunst in Schwäbisch Hall

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Works cited [edit]

• Beckett, Jane; Russell, Fiona (2003). Henry Moore: Infinite, Sculpture, Politics. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate. ISBN0-7546-0836-0.
• Berthoud, Roger (2003). The Life of Henry Moore (2 ed.). Giles de la Mare. ISBN978-1-900357-22-7.
• Causey, Andrew (1998). Sculpture Since 1945 . Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN0-xix-284205-6.
• Grohmann, Will (1960). The Fine art of Henry Moore. New York: H. N. Abrams.

Further reading [edit]

• Darracott, J. (1975). Henry Moore War Drawings.
• Feldman, Anita (2009). Henry Moore Textiles. Surrey: Lund Humphries. ISBN978-1-84822-052-ii.
• Feldman, Anita (2013). Henry Moore: Large Late Forms. London: Gagosian.
• Feldman, Anita (2014). Body & Void: Echoes of Moore in Contemporary Art. Perry Light-green: The Henry Moore Foundation. ISBN978-0-906909-32-4.
• Feldman, Anita; Pinet, Hélène; Moore, Mary; Blanchetière, François (2013). Moore Rodin. Perry Green: The Henry Moore Foundation. ISBN978-0-906909-31-7.
• Feldman, Anita; Woodward, Malcolm (2011). Henry Moore Plasters. London: Regal Academy of Arts. ISBN978-1-907533-xi-2.
• Hedgecoe, John (1998). A Monumental Vision: The Sculpture of Henry Moore. Collins & Brownish. ISBN1-55670-683-ix.
• Kosinski, Dorothy, ed. (2001). Henry Moore: Sculpting the 20th Century. New Oasis: Yale University Press.
• Mitchinson, David; Feldman Bennet, Anita (2002). Moore: The Graphics. ISBN0-906909-26-0.
• Moore, Henry (1986). Henry Moore: Model to Monument. New York: Kent Fine art. ISBN1-878607-21-nine.
• O'Reilly, Sally; Oliver, Clare (2003). Henry Moore . Scholastic Library. ISBN0-531-16643-0.
• Seldis, Henry J. (1973). Henry Moore in America . Praeger.
• Sylvester, David (1968). Henry Moore. London: Arts Quango of Great britain.
• Henry Moore: At Dulwich Motion-picture show Gallery. Scala. 2004. ISBN1-85759-352-9.

External links [edit]

• Henry Moore Foundation website
• Henry Moore collection at the Israel Museum.
• "The Enigma of Henry Moore" by Brian McAvera. Sculpture Magazine, July/August 2001: Vol. 20, No. half-dozen.
• BBC article with archive moving-picture show of Moore at work
• 3D model of Recumbent Figure (1938) from Tate
• The UNESCO Works of Art Collection
• An Intimate Moore, Tom Freudenheim, The Wall Street Journal, 30 June 2010
• Henry Moore at Kew, 2007

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