#henry moore
HENRY MOORE
English, 1898-1986
STANDING NUDE, circa 1927
charcoal, pen and ink and ink wash on paper
35 x 24 cm. | 13¾ x 9½ in.
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Henry Moore (UK, 1898 - 1986)
Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Henry Moore, Large Two Forms, 1966-69. Bronze 386 x 610 cm (151 15/16 x 240 3/16 in.)
Large Two Forms, 1966. Reproduced (1969?) by permission of The Henry Moore Foundation. Courtesy Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Photo c Jonty Wilde
https://catalogue.henry-moore.org/objects/17803/large-two-forms
TheLarge Two Forms, three and a half tonnes each, were installed in London’s Gagosian Gallery, displayed inside for the first time. - The Guardian May 2012
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Happy Birthday to Henry Moore, born on this day in 1898!
During the 1950s he devised many compositions of seated figures, usually in pairs or groups, which allude to the renewal of life in postwar Britain. The couple depicted in “King and Queen,” however, has greater public significance. The subject emerged as Moore worked on figures inspired by an Egyptian Seated Royal Couple from the eighteenth century B.C., a sculpture displayed in the British Museum. The serenity and stateliness of Moore’s figures, completed in the same year as the young Queen Elizabeth’s coronation, may also reaffirm Britain’s monarchy as a symbol of continuity and triumph after the country’s near destruction by war.
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Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl, Die Seelen des Acheron (The Souls of Acheron), 1898.
This painting is seriously creepy - the dead with their wreaths of flowers and their firmly closed eyes (and yet they can “see” Hermes’ light). Look at the small child at bottom right. This would totally be the worst part of any psychopomp’s job. (Who are the figures at right, turned away from the god? Who is the man behind Hermes reaching out to?)
Pale Shelter Scene (1941) by Henry Moore reminded me inescapably of this painting. The Londoners sheltering from the Blitz look skeletal, as though they’re already Underground.
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