Maquette

A maquette is model for a larger piece of sculpture, created in order to visualise how it might look and to work out approaches and materials for how it might be made

Maquettes are often fascinating works in their own right, conveying the immediacy of the artist’s first realisation of an idea.

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selected artworks in the collection

Maquette for Family Group
Henry Moore OM, CH
1945
Inner Eye (Maquette III)
Lynn Chadwick
1952
Maquette of a Monument Symbolising the Liberation of the Spirit
Antoine Pevsner
1952

On display at Tate Modern Part of Artist and Society
Maquette, Three Forms in Echelon
Dame Barbara Hepworth
1961

On display at Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden Part of Barbara Hepworth

Maquette

selected artworks in the collection

Maquette for Family Group

Inner Eye (Maquette III)

Maquette of a Monument Symbolising the Liberation of the Spirit

Maquette, Three Forms in Echelon

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